Shape perception in human vision: Specialized detectors for concentric spatial structures?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 360, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 100-102

  Kurki, Ilmari ^a   Saarinen, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cortical area V4; Cortical areaV2; Glass pattern; Human spatial vision; Psychophysics; Shape perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 1842763701     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.01.053     Document Type: Article

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