The Development of Contour Processing: Evidence from Physiology and Psychophysics

The Development of Contour Processing: Evidence from Physiology and Psychophysics

Object perception and pattern vision depend fundamentally upon the extraction of contours from the visual environment. In adulthood, contour or edge-level processing is supported by the Gestalt heuristics of proximity, collinearity and closure. Less is known, however, about the developmental traject...

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Main Authors: Gemma eTaylor, Daniel eHipp, Alecia eMoser, Kelly eDickerson, Peter eGerhardstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
development
Visual development
closure
horizontal connections
contour detection
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00719/full

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