Illusions in the spatial sense of the eye: Geometrical-optical illusions and the neural representation of space

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2128-2142

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contours; Hierarchical order; Metrical properties of visual space; Perceptual rules; Spatial primitives

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; NEURONS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 51349125151     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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