Binocular disparity only comes into play when everything else fails; A finding with broader implications than one might suppose

Spatial Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 495-508

  Pizlo, Zygmunt ^a   Li, Yunfeng ^a   Steinman, Robert M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D shape; Binocular vision; Figure ground organization; Nativism empiricism; Simplicity principle

Indexed keywords

3D SHAPE; BINOCULAR DISPARITY; FIGURE-GROUND; FIGURE-GROUND ORGANIZATION; GESTALT GROUPING PRINCIPLES; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NATIVISM/EMPIRICISM; PERCEPTUAL PROPERTIES; SIMPLICITY PRINCIPLE;

BINOCULAR VISION; BINOCULARS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 60249091996     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: 15685683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856808786451453     Document Type: Article

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