Global properties of natural scenes shape local properties of human edge detectors

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Neri, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inversion effect; Reverse correlation; Top down; Visual psychophysics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861160699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00172     Document Type: Article

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