Global shape processing: Which parts form the whole?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Bell, Jason ^a   Hancock, Sarah ^b   Kingdom, Frederick A A ^a   Peirce, Jonathan W ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aftereffects; Global; Local; Shape

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79955134371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.6.16     Document Type: Article

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