Visual learning in the perception of texture: Simple and contingent aftereffects of texture density

Spatial Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 423-474

  Durgin, Frank H ^a   Proffitt, Dennis R ^b  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; HUMAN; LEARNING; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SOUND; TIME; VISION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COLOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

BINOCULAR VISION; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; TEXTURES;

AUDITORY CONTINGENCIES; CLASSICAL CONDITIONING THEORY; CONTINGENT AFTEREFFECT; TEXTURE DENSITY; VISUAL DISTORTION; VISUAL LEARNING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0029665187     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856896X00204     Document Type: Article

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