A simple mechanism for detecting low curvatures

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1411-1419

  Kramer, Dieter ^a   Fahle, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crowding; Curvature detection; Hyperacuity; Length; Orientation; Receptive field

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0029979239     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00340-1     Document Type: Article

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