What is second-order vision for? Discriminating illumination versus material changes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Schofield, Andrew J ^a   Rock, Paul B ^a   Sun, Peng ^a   Jiang, Xiaoyue ^a   Georgeson, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D surface and shape perception; Computational modeling; Shading; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LIGHTING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79955133919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.9.2     Document Type: Article

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