Contrast negation and texture synthesis differentially disrupt natural texture appearance

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Balas, Benjamin ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image statistics; Texture discrimination; Texture synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871031096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00515     Document Type: Article

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