Grouping local orientation and direction signals to extract spatial contours: Empirical tests of "association field" models of contour integration

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2511-2522

  Ledgeway, Timothy ^a   Hess, Robert F ^b   Geisler, Wilson S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Contours; Direction; Orientation; Spatial linking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

CUES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 22044432441     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.04.002     Document Type: Article

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