A biologically plausible model of human radial frequency perception

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2443-2455

  Poirier, Frédéric J A M ^a   Wilson, Hugh R ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Curvature; Global shape; Neural model; Object recognition; Radial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646350769     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.026     Document Type: Article

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