Object perception and masking: Contributions of sides and convexities

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 3001-3011

  Poirier, Frédéric J A M ^a   Wilson, Hugh R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Curvature; Global shape; Masking; Object recognition; Radial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MASKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34848926120     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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