Local and global contributions to shape discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 519-530

  Loffler, Gunter ^a,b   Wilson, Hugh R ^b   Wilkinson, Frances ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circularity; Form vision; Global processing; Pattern discrimination; Shape perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0037367369     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00686-7     Document Type: Article

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