The role of local features in shape discrimination of contour- and surface-defined radial frequency patterns at low contrast

Vision Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Ivanov, Iliya V ^a   Mullen, Kathy T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast; Curvature; Global; Local; Orientation; Radial frequency; Shape discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY PATTERN; SHAPE DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 84455202357     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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