Influence of scale and orientation on the visual perception of natural scenes

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1199-1234

  Hansen, Bruce C ^a   Essock, Edward A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 24644449716     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000715     Document Type: Review

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