Spatial distortions induced by multiple visual landmarks: How local distortions combine to produce complex distortion patterns

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 861-873

  Schmidt, Thomas ^a   Werner, Steffen ^b   Diedrichsen, Jörn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0142259161     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194820     Document Type: Article

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