Symmetry impedes symmetry discrimination

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 888-

  Tjan, Bosco S ^a,c   Liu, Zili ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Discrimination; Face; Random dots; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE ASYMMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 29544449538     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.10.10     Document Type: Article

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