Behavioral evidence for visual perception of 3-dimensional surface structures in monkeys

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2399-2410

  Uka, Takanori ^a   Tanaka, Hiroki ^c   Kato, Makoto ^a,b   Fujita, Ichiro ^a,b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Binocular disparity; Illusory contour; Neon color spreading; The principle of generic image sampling; Visual illusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; LIGHT; MACACA; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0032966558     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00305-8     Document Type: Article

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