A unified model of illusory and occluded contour interpolation

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 284-299

  Kalar, Donald J ^a   Garrigan, Patrick ^b   Wickens, Thomas D ^c   Hilger, James D ^a   Kellman, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Contour interpolation; Identity hypothesis; Illusory contours; Occluded contours

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 75349093591     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.10.011     Document Type: Article

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