Features and the 'primal sketch'

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 738-753

  Morgan, Michael J ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Features; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA IMAGE; REVIEW; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650303665     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.08.002     Document Type: Review

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