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Sixty-four Ss were tested on a judgmental task involving discrimination between textures with variable numbers of elements. Results showed that the threshold for detecting percentage differences in numbers of dots in adjacent patterns decreased monotonically with the total number of dots in the standard. Implications of this finding for the perceptual processing of textures are discussed.
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Newman, C.V. Detection of differences between visual textures with varying number of dots. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 4, 201–202 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334246
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334246