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Ss judged the similarity of pairs of patterns made up of 10x10 arrays of short line segments. Patterns differed with respect to the variability of occurrence of each of eight possible angles of orientation of the individual segments. The amount of information per line segment was the best linear predictor of the average similarity ratings. Other measures of statistical properties of these patterns are also described.
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This research was supported in part by NASA Grant NsG 398 and in part by NSF Grant GJ-32258X. The authors wish to thank Myrna Fivel and Anita Cunitz for their assistance in data collection, and John Pfaltz for the program for pattern generation.
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Anderson, N.S., Rosenfeld, A. Judgments of slope variability in visual patterns. Psychon Sci 29, 216–217 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332832
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