The influence of orientation jitter and motion on contour saliency and object identification

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2475-2484

  Nygård, Geir Eliassen ^a   Looy, Tina Van ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Figure ground segregation; Gabor; Good continuation; Motion perception; Object perception; Perceptual grouping; Shape perception; Shape from motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349449590     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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