Multi-level visual adaptation: Dissociating curvature and facial-expression aftereffects produced by the same adapting stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 72, Issue , 2012, Pages 42-53

  Xu, Hong ^a   Liu, Pan ^a   Dayan, Peter ^b   Qian, Ning ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Aftereffect inheritance; Curve perception; Face perception; Hierarchical adaptation; Multi level aftereffects

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION AFTEREFFECT; ARTICLE; CURVE PERCEPTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARTOONS AS TOPIC; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACIAL EXPRESSION; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84867237727     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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