Measuring contrast sensitivity

Vision Research

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-14

  Pelli, Denis G ^a   Bex, Peter ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive threshold estimation; Contrast sensitivity; Fechner; QUEST; Threshold

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; GLARE; HUMAN; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD ESTIMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FECHNER; QUEST; THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION TESTS; VISION, LOW;

EID: 84881615927     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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