Chapter 7 Lightness, filling-in, and the fundamental role of context in visual perception

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 155 B, Issue , 2006, Pages 109-123

  Paradiso, Michael A ^a   Blau, Seth ^a   Huang, Xin ^a   MacEvoy, Sean P ^a   Rossi, Andrew F ^a   Shalev, Gideon ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

context; filling in; lightness; natural vision

Indexed keywords

GESTALT THERAPY; LABORATORY TEST; LUMINANCE; MODULATION; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CYTOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEEDBACK; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33749257281     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)55007-1     Document Type: Review

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