Paired and unpaired features can be equally effective in human depth perception

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Pianta, Michael J ^a,b   Gillam, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aftereffect; Binocular vision; Half occlusion; Stereopsis; Unpaired background stereopsis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ECOLOGY; EYE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 0037220872     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00399-1     Document Type: Article

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