Surface boundary contour strengthens image dominance in binocular competition

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-170

  Xu, Jingping P ^a,b   He, Zijiang J ^a,b   Ooi, Teng Leng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SALUS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Boundary contour; Surface feature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 72749090786     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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