Effects of global shape on angle discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 1530-1539

  Kennedy, Graeme J ^a   Orbach, Harry S ^a   Loffler, Gunter ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angle discrimination; Form vision; Global processing; Image geometry; Shape perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 30444456828     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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