Feature synergy depends on feature contrast and objecthood

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1843-1850

  Meinhardt, Günter ^a   Schmidt, Max ^a   Persike, Malte ^a   Röers, Bodo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FACILITATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISIBILITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 2442505726     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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