Contour interaction in foveal vision: A response to Siderov, Waugh, and Bedell (2013)

Vision Research

Volumn 96, Issue , 2014, Pages 140-144

  Coates, Daniel R ^a   Levi, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; CONTRAST MASKING; CROWDING (VISION); HUMAN; LETTER; LUMINANCE; PERIPHERAL VISION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84896705917     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.10.016     Document Type: Letter

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