Cue Summation Enables Perceptual Grouping

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-26

  Persike, Malte ^a   Meinhardt, Günter ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cue combination; feature contrast; perceptual grouping; spatial integration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISION;

CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39449114823     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.1.1     Document Type: Article

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