Cue combination in a combined feature contrast detection and figure identification task

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 3977-3993

  Meinhardt, Günter ^a   Persike, Malte ^a   Mesenholl, Björn ^a   Hagemann, Cordula ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cue combination; Feature contrast; Figure ground segregation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33749263524     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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