Detection and discrimination of subjective contours defined by offset gratings

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1256-1268

  Gurnsey, Rick ^a   Iordanova, Marta ^a   Grinberg, Daisy ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033209459     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206178     Document Type: Article

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