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Luminance and contrast cues are integrated in global shape detection with contours

Jason Bell1, David R Badcock

  • 1School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, WA, Australia. jason.bell@mail.mcgill.ca

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|August 16, 2008
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