Detection of (anti)symmetry and (anti)repetition: Perceptual mechanisms versus cognitive strategies

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2754-2763

  van der Helm, Peter A ^a   Treder, Matthias S ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antisymmetry; Perceptual organization; Regularity detection; Selective attention; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449720589     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.015     Document Type: Article

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