Which Mask is the Most Efficient: A Pattern or a Noise? It Depends on the Task

Visual Cognition

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 313-338

  Delord, Sandrine ^a,b  

^a Lab de Psychophysique Sensorielle   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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EID: 0345239190     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713756789     Document Type: Article

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