Curvature and the visual perception of shape: Theory on information along object boundaries and the minima rule revisited

Psychological Review

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 668-677

  Lim, Ik Soo ^a   Charles Leek, E ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; VISION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867369435     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025962     Document Type: Note

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