The Poggendorff illusion explained by natural scene geometry

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 7707-7712

  Howe, Catherine Q ^a   Yang, Zhiyong ^a   Purves, Dale ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometrical illusions; Natural scene statistics; Range images; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETINA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 19644368247     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0502893102     Document Type: Article

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