Global and local vision in natural scene identification

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 840-847

  de Cesarei, Andrea ^a   Loftus, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Global precedence; Perceptual categorization and identification; Spatial frequencies; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053115978     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0133-6     Document Type: Article

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