The Importance of Information Localization in Scene Gist Recognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1431-1450

  Loschky, Lester C ^a   Sethi, Amit ^b   Simons, Daniel J ^b   Pydimarri, Tejaswi N ^a   Ochs, Daniel ^a   Corbeille, Jeremy L ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

amplitude; gist recognition; masking; natural scenes; phase

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38349150952     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.6.1431     Document Type: Article

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