The contrasting impact of global and local object attributes on Kanizsa figure detection

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1278-1294

  Conci, Markus ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a   Elliott, Mark A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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EID: 36749057337     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192945     Document Type: Article

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