Is visual image segmentation a bottom-up or an interactive process?

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1280-1296

  Vecera, Shaun P ^a   Farah, Martha J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031262141     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03214214     Document Type: Article

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