Human development of perceptual organization

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10-12, 2000, Pages 1301-1310

  Kovács, Ilona ^a  

^a Lab Vis Res Psychol A ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Contour integration; Development; Long range connections; Parallel visual pathways; Perceptual organization

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; ILLUSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LUMINANCE; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0342264739     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00055-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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