The abutting grating illusion

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-116

  Soriano, Manuel ^a   Spillmann, Lothar ^b   Bach, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abutting grating illusion; End stopped cells; Illusory contour

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MACACA; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029655398     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00107-B     Document Type: Article

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