Contour grouping: Closure effects are explained by good continuation and proximity

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 2769-2777

  Tversky, Tal ^a,b   Geisler, Wilson S ^a   Perry, Jeffrey S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Closure; Contour integration; Natural scene statistics; Perceptual grouping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 4444255888     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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