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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

The reasonable effectiveness of contours in vision.

Qasim Zaidi

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Orientation fields predict human perception of 3D shape from shading.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Qasim ZaidiGraduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York, New York, NY 10036.ORCID 0000-0002-1300-2879

Funding

NEURAL BASIS OF SHAPE FROM TEXTURER01EY013312 · NEI · STATE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY · PI ZAIDI, QASIM · 2001 to 2015
$3.8M
MECHANISMS OF COLOR DETECTION, INDUCTION, AND ADAPTATIONR01EY007556 · NEI · STATE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY · PI ZAIDI, QASIM · 1993 to 2010
$2.4M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY007556NEI NIH HHS R01 EY013312
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Form PerceptionVision, Ocular

Identifiers

PMID36264820
PMCPMC9636940

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