Infants' sensitivity to shading and line junctions

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1420-1426

  Imura, Tomoko ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Masami K ^c,d   Kanazawa, So ^e   Shirai, Nobu ^b,f   Otsuka, Yumiko ^b,g   Tomonaga, Masaki ^a   Yagi, Akihiro ^h  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infants; Line junctions; Pictorial depth cue; Shading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHADE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 43449133542     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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