Visual discrimination of orientation statistics in crowded and uncrowded arrays

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Solomon, Joshua A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detection discrimination; Spatial vision; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251581289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.14.1     Document Type: Article

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