Classifying illusory contours: Edges defined by 'pacman' and monocular tokens

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 731-736

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a   Li, Wu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0031030686     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.2.731     Document Type: Article

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