The time course of the oblique effect in orientation judgements

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 202-214

  Matthews, Nestor ^a   Rojewski, Alana ^a   Cox, Jennifer ^a  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Duration; Oblique effect; Orientation discrimination; Orientation dynamics; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27344441836     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.3.5     Document Type: Article

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