Global contour shapes are coded differently from their local components

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1702-1710

  Bell, Jason ^a   Kingdom, Fredrick A A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Contour; Curvature; Global; Radial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 67349091706     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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