Discriminating local continuity in curved figures

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3287-3299

  Keeble, D R T ^a,b   Hess, R F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contour perception; Form perception; Grouping; Second order; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0032988924     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00021-8     Document Type: Article

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