Contour interpolation revealed by a dot localization paradigm

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1799-1815

  Guttman, Sharon E ^a,b   Kellman, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filling in; Illusory contours; Interpolation; Localization; Occlusion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 2342652279     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.02.008     Document Type: Article

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