The Poggendorff illusion: A bias in the estimation of the orientation of virtual lines by second-stage filters

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2361-2380

  Morgan, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian blur; Muller Lyer illusion; Poggendorff bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ERROR; FILTER; GEOMETRY; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 0032965947     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00243-0     Document Type: Article

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