Orientation uncertainty reduces perceived obliquity

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 541-547

  Tomassini, Alessandro ^a   Morgan, Michael J ^a   Solomon, Joshua A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER BIAS; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCERTAINTY; VARIANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 76549113267     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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