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On the decline of 1st and 2nd order sensitivity with eccentricity

Robert F Hess1, Daniel H Baker, Keith A May

  • 1McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. robert.hess@mcgill.ca

Journal of Vision
|March 6, 2008
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