Non-linear global pooling in the discrimination of circular and non-circular shapes

Vision Research

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-56

  Schmidtmann, Gunnar ^a   Kennedy, Graeme J ^a   Orbach, Harry S ^a   Loffler, Gunter ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contour; Form vision; Global processing; Probability summation; Radial frequency; Shape perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GLOBAL POOLING; HUMAN; NEUROMODULATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY SUMMATION; RADIAL FREQUENCY; RECOGNITION; SHAPE PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 84859932997     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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