Texture segregation on the basis of contrast polarity of odd-symmetric filters

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 3526-3536

  Grieco, Alba ^a   Casco, Clara ^a   Roncato, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Odd symmetric filters; Perceptual learning; Psychophysics; Texture segregation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING TEST; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33746276142     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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