Visual motion processing in one-month-old infants: Habituation experiments

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1679-1685

  Wattam Bell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direction discrimination; Visual development; Visual motion processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029951885     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00237-5     Document Type: Article

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