Statistical regularities in art: Relations with visual coding and perception

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1503-1509

  Graham, Daniel J ^a   Redies, Christoph ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Art; Efficient coding; Natural scenes; Perception; Retina; Sparseness; Statistical regularities; V1; Vision; Visual system

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ART; ASSOCIATION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ESTHETICS; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAINTINGS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954309540     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.05.002     Document Type: Review

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