Flank facilitation and contour integration: Different sites

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3699-3706

  Huang, Pi Chun ^a   Hess, Robert F ^a   Dakin, Steven C ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contour integration; Dichoptic; Disparity; Lateral spatial facilitation; Paths

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 33748430635     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.04.025     Document Type: Article

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