Degraded illusory contour formation with non-uniform inducers in Kanizsa configurations: The role of contrast polarity

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 2653-2659

  Spehar, Branka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Illusory contours

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VOLUNTEER;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS;

EID: 0033853170     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00109-7     Document Type: Article

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