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Research with texture pairs having identical second-order statistics has revealed that the pre-attentive texture discrimination system cannot globally process third- and higher-order statistics, and that discrimination is the result of a few local conspicuous features, called textons. It seems that only the first-order statistics of these textons have perceptual significance, and the relative phase between textons cannot be perceived without detailed scrutiny by focal attention.
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Julesz, B. Textons, the elements of texture perception, and their interactions. Nature 290, 91–97 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/290091a0
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