Scaled medial axis representation: Evidence from position discrimination task

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1947-1959

  Wang, Xiaofei ^a   Burbeck, Christina A ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis; Position; Shape; Size; Weber's Law

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031877773     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00299-X     Document Type: Article

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