Global shape versus local feature: An angle illusion

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1281-1289

  Kennedy, Graeme J ^a   Orbach, Harry S ^a   Loffler, Gunter ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angle perception; Form vision; Global processing; Image geometry; Shape perception; Visual illusions

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 43049133697     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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