Spatial Grouping Determines Temporal Integration

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 595-610

  Hermens, Frouke ^a   Scharnowski, Frank ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

feature fusion; Gestalt laws; modeling; spatial grouping; temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67549130310     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013706     Document Type: Article

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