Ecologically valid combinations of first- and second-order surface markings facilitate texture discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 2281-2290

  Johnson, Aaron P ^a   Prins, Nicolaas ^b   Kingdom, Frederick A A ^c   Baker Jr , Curtis L ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological vision; Image statistics; Natural images; Second order; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34547103559     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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