Aging effects on collinear facilitation

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Chan, Yu Man ^a   Battista, Josephine ^a   McKendrick, Allison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Collinear facilitation; Form perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875473612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.6.21     Document Type: Article

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