Low-level grouping mechanisms for contour completion

Information Sciences

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 19-35

  Todman, Alison G ^a   Claridge, Ela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amodal completion; Closure; Contrast polarity; Muscle cells; Neural mechanisms; Perceptual grouping; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008141835     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(99)00147-4     Document Type: Article

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