Ameliorating the combinatorial explosion with spatial frequency-matched combinations of V1 outputs

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Hancock, Sarah ^a   McGovern, David P ^a   Peirce, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Middle vision; Perceptual organization; Shape and contour; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79952636242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.8.7     Document Type: Article

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