The effects of dot pattern parameters and constraints on the relative salience of vertical bilateral symmetry

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2311-2320

  Wenderoth, Peter ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bilateral symmetry; Orientation; Set size effects; Vertical salience; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030222234     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00252-9     Document Type: Article

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