Faces in the mist: Illusory face and letter detection

i-Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 458-476

  Rieth, Cory A ^a   Lee, Kang ^a,b   Lui, Jiangang ^c   Tian, Jie ^d,e   Huber, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Face perception; False detection.; Letter perception; Reverse correlation; Top down; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865079412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0421     Document Type: Article

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