Principles of contour information: Reply to Lim and Leek (2012)

Psychological Review

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 678-683

  Singh, Manish ^a   Feldman, Jacob ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvature; Information theory; Minima rule; Shape perception; Visual contours

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NOTE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867342648     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028733     Document Type: Letter

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