Near their thresholds for detection, shapes are discriminated by the angular separation of their corners.

Observers make sense of scenes by parsing images on the retina into meaningful objects. This ability is retained for line drawings, demonstrating that critical information is concentrated at object boundaries. Information theoretic studies argue for further concentration at points of maximum curvatu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: J Edwin Dickinson, Jason Bell, David R Badcock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23741521/?tool=EBI