Efficiencies for the statistics of size discrimination

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Solomon, Joshua A ^a   Morgan, Michael ^b   Chubb, Charles ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection discrimination; Spatial vision; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 81555208997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.12.13     Document Type: Article

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