Detecting low shape-frequencies in smooth and jagged contours

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2390-2402

  Prins, Nicolaas ^a   Kingdom, Frederick A A ^b   Hayes, Anthony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Contour; Curvature; Edge; Fractal edge; Psychophysics; Shape; Shape frequency

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; LUMINANCE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

FORM PERCEPTION; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34547808101     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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