Selective mechanisms for simple contours revealed by compound adaptation

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Hancock, Sarah ^a   Peirce, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Contours; Perceptual organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 44849117538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.7.11     Document Type: Article

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