Dynamics of shape interaction in human vision

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 4305-4320

  Habak, Claudine ^a   Wilkinson, Frances ^a   Wilson, Hugh R ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contextual interactions; Masking; Shape; Temporal interactions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33750441506     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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