Artistic representations: Clues to efficient coding in human vision

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-379

  Graham, Daniel J ^a,b   Meng, Ming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Art perception; Coding efficiency; Cortex; Face detection; Natural scene statistics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ART; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTRAST; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ART; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055055288     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523811000162     Document Type: Article

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