Abstract
Analysis of recently published human contrast-sensitivity data obtained along the cardinal and major oblique visual-field meridians of a single subject has demonstrated a consistently greater sensitivity at a given eccentricity to horizontally oriented as compared with obliquely oriented gratings. This difference was evident not only at foveal but also at several eccentric loci over a range of low to medium spatial frequencies. This observation is to be distinguished in extrafoveal fixation from the well-documented oblique effect, which describes the variation in sensitivity with orientation at a single visual-field locus. With periodic stimuli which were well localised in space and frequency, and had comparable spatial-summation properties, a spatial-frequency dependency of what could be termed the global oblique effect could be demonstrated along isoeccentric contours centred on the fovea (eccentricity 0 deg) out to an eccentricity of at least 40 deg.
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