Informational primacy of visual dimensions: Specialized roles for luminance and chromaticity in figure-ground perception

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 824-846

  Yamagishi, Noriko ^a   Melara, Robert D ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0035404725     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194441     Document Type: Article

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