Crowding and the tilt illusion: Toward a unified account

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 500-508

  Solomon, Joshua A ^a   Felisberti, Fatima M ^b   Morgan, Michael J ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lateral interactions; Orientation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TILTING; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION;

EID: 3843065904     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.6.9     Document Type: Article

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