Visual comparisons within and between object parts: Evidence for a single-part superiority effect

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1655-1666

  Barenholtz, Elan ^a   Feldman, Jacob ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvature; Psychophysics; Shape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0038359516     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00166-4     Document Type: Article

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