Perceptual saliency of points along the contour of everyday objects: A large-scale study

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-64

  De Winter, Joeri ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; VISION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 40949115439     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.1.50     Document Type: Article

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