Orientation, scale, and discontinuity as emergent properties of illusory contour shape

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 831-837

  Thornber, Karvel K ^a   Williams, Lance R ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED CONTOURS; CONSTANT SPEED; CONTOUR SHAPE; EMERGENT PROPERTY; NATURAL SHAPES; NEURAL MODELING; SCALE-INVARIANT;

EID: 3843048832     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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