How the human visual system encodes the orientation of a texture, and why it makes mistakes

Current Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 999-1002

  Morgan, M J ^a   Baldassi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031457329     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(06)00421-0     Document Type: Article

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