Global contour saliency and local colinear interactions

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2846-2856

  Li, Wu ^a   Gilbert, Charles D ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0036849211     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00289.2002     Document Type: Article

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