Design considerations and techniques for constructing video stimuli

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-54

  Rosenthal, Gil G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Video playback; Visual signals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002696139     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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