The effect of viewing eccentricity on enumeration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Palomares, Melanie ^a   Smith, Paul R ^a   Pitts, Carole Holley ^a   Carter, Breana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79958750610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020779     Document Type: Article

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