Differences in real and illusory shape perception revealed by backward masking

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-102

  Imber, Michelle L ^a,b,c   Shapley, Robert M ^a   Rubin, Nava ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary interpolation; Illusory contours; Real contours; Shape discrimination; Size invariance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 9644278095     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.07.034     Document Type: Article

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