Closure facilitates contour integration

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 818-827

  Mathes, Birgit ^a   Fahle, Manfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b The Henry Wellcome Applied Vision Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circularity; Closure; Contour integration; Curvature; Number of contour elements; Orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33847302467     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.11.014     Document Type: Article

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