A new cue to figure-ground coding: Top-bottom polarity

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 2779-2791

  Hulleman, Johan ^a   Humphreys, Glyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Figure ground segregation; Perceptual organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 4444333690     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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