The watercolor effect: Spacing constraints

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 2911-2917

  Devinck, Frédéric ^a   Spillmann, Lothar ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color appearance; Color assimilation; Filling in; Watercolor effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINESCENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 70449722796     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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