Detection of Visual Symmetries

Spatial Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 9-32

  Wagemans, Johan ^a  

^a University of Leuvert ^*  (Belgium)

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ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW;

ANIMAL; ATTENTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029177194     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: 15685683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856895X00098     Document Type: Article

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