Perception of stationary plaids: The role of spatial filters in edge analysis

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 3255-3271

  Georgeson, Mark A ^a   Meese, Tim S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Edge detection; Filter combination; Human vision; Orientation coding; Spatial filtering; Zero crossings

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030776631     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00124-7     Document Type: Article

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