Optimal decisions for contrast discrimination

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Sanborn, Adam N ^a,b   Dayan, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Contrast sensitivity; Detection discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855459877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.14.9     Document Type: Article

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