Reconciling Simplicity and Likelihood Principles in Perceptual Organization

Psychological Review

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 566-581

  Chater, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0030191849     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.103.3.566     Document Type: Article

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