Perception of surface slant from oriented textures

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 882-897

  Saunders, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Backus, Benjamin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D vision; Cue integration; Depth perception; Linear perspective; Slant perception; Texture gradients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747162713     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.9.3     Document Type: Article

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