How long range is contour integration in human color vision?

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-64

  Beaudot, William H A ^a   Mullen, Kathy T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area V1; Contour integration; Human color vision; Long range interactions; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FORM PERCEPTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0037266636     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523803201061     Document Type: Article

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