Curvilinearity, covariance, and regularity in perceptual groups

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2835-2848

  Feldman, Jacob ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collinearity; Curvature; Grouping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030752114     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00096-5     Document Type: Article

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