Visual perceptual organization: Lessons from lesions

Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 337-375

  Behrmann, Marlene ^a   Kimchi, Ruth ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410608918     Document Type: Chapter

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