Pattern masking: The importance of remote spatial frequencies and their phase alignment

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1-13

  Huang, Pi Chun ^a   Maehara, Goro ^b   May, Keith A ^c   Hess, Robert F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dichoptic blur suppression; Masking; Pattern masking; Phase alignment; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862086489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.2.14     Document Type: Article

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