The perceptual expansion of a filled area depends on textural characteristics

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 2466-2475

  Giora, Enrico ^a   Gori, Simone ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Microelements' numerosity; Oppel Kundt illusion; Spatial frequency; Statistical properties; Textural characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149409869     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.08.033     Document Type: Article

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