Information along contours and object boundaries

Psychological Review

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 243-252

  Feldman, Jacob ^a   Singh, Manish ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; VISION;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 12344268895     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.112.1.243     Document Type: Article

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