Ideal observer for heading judgments

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 471-490

  Crowell, James A ^a   Banks, Martin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heading; Ideal observer; Motion; Optic flow; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SIGNAL DETECTION; VELOCITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0030069872     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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