Correspondence noise and signal pooling in the detection of coherent visual motion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 7954-7966

  Barlow, Horace ^a   Tripathy, Srimant P ^a  

^a PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherent motion; Correspondence noise; Global motion; Integration; Matched filters; MT or V5; Statistical efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030761206     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-20-07954.1997     Document Type: Article

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