Global precedence, spatial frequency channels, and the statistics of natural images

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-230

  Hughes, Howard C ^a,c   Nozawa, George ^a   Kitterle, Frederick ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; VISION;

EID: 0029948015     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.3.197     Document Type: Article

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