Discrimination of natural scenes in central and peripheral vision

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1686-1698

  To, M P S ^a   Gilchrist, I D ^b   Troscianko, T ^b   Tolhurst, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour; Crowding; Orientation; Peripheral vision; Spatial vision; Visual Difference Predictor model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAZE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960908463     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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