Bloch's law and the dynamics of feature fusion

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2444-2452

  Scharnowski, Frank ^a   Hermens, Frouke ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bloch's law; Feature integration; Temporal dynamics; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34547793006     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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