Object grouping contingent upon background

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1313-1324

  Caputo, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Area V2; Computational models; Feedback; Non local; Scale problem; Surface representation

Indexed keywords

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

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION;

EID: 0030952131     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00261-1     Document Type: Article

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