Texture and object motion in slant discrimination: Failure of reliability-based weighting of cues may be evidence for strong fusion

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1-21

  Rosas, Pedro ^a,b,c,d   Wichmann, Felix A ^b   Wagemans, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c Centro de Neurociencias Integradas   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Depth cues combination; Object motion; Slant discrimination; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34147179037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.6.3     Document Type: Article

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