Spatial and temporal properties of illusory contours and amodal boundary completion

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 3037-3050

  Ringach, Dario L ^a   Shapley, Robert ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amodal completion; Boundary integration; Illusory contours

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030271891     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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