The orientational resolution of human texture perception

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2993-3007

  Keeble, D R T ^a,b,c   Kingdom, F A A ^a   Morgan, M J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Filtering; Orientation; Psychophysics; Resolution; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0030782636     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00235-0     Document Type: Article

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