Display symmetry affects positional specificity in same-different judgment of pairs of novel visual patterns

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3752-3760

  Dill, Marcus ^a,b   Fahle, Manfred ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human pattern vision; Positional specificity; Psychophysics; Random dot pattern; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; OBSERVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0032781227     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00068-1     Document Type: Article

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