Texture Segmentation Along the Horizontal Meridian: Nonmonotonic Changes in Performance with Eccentricity

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 738-757

  Gurnsey, Rick ^a   Day, Duncan ^a   Pearson, Pauline ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0030168023     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.22.3.738     Document Type: Article

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