Grouping and Emergent Features in Vision: Toward a Theory of Basic Gestalts

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1331-1349

  Pomerantz, James R ^a   Portillo, Mary C ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Configural; Emergent features; Gestalts; Vision; Wholes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 80053989634     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024330     Document Type: Article

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