Quantification of visual stimuli from different stimulus domains has led to conflicting results when discrimination difficulty is related to selected pattern attributes. It is suggested that complete physical specification of visual patterns should involve both structural and metrical units and that independent manipulation of each may resolve conflicting data.
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