Better discrimination for illusory than for occluded perceptual completions

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Zhou, Jiawei ^a   Tjan, Bosco S ^b   Zhou, Yifeng ^a   Liu, Zili ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amodal; Discrimination; Illusory; Kanizsa; Modal; Perceptual completion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ILLUSION; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

EID: 58149512520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.7.26     Document Type: Article

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