Disambiguation of Necker cube rotation by monocular and binocular depth cues: Relative effectiveness for establishing long-term bias

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 978-986

  Harrison, Sarah J ^a   Backus, Benjamin T ^a   Jain, Anshul ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular disparity; Bistable perception; Depth perception; Monocular depth cues; Necker cube; Perceptual bias; Perceptual learning; Structure from motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR DEPTH CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MONOCULAR DEPTH CUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL BIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955127001     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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