Interactions between constituent single symmetries in multiple symmetry

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1487-1502

  Treder, Matthias Sebastian ^a,b   van der Vloed, Gert ^c   van der Helm, Peter A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multiple symmetry; Perceptual organization; Relative orientation; Symmetry perception; Visual regularity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STATISTICS;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959227039     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0115-9     Document Type: Article

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