Why pictures look right when viewed from the wrong place

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1401-1410

  Vishwanath, Dhanraj ^a   Girshick, Ahna R ^a   Banks, Martin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; GEOMETRY; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744502138     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1553     Document Type: Article

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