Independent coding across spatial scales in moving fractal images

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1873-1883

  Brady, Nuala ^a,b   Bex, Peter J ^a   Fredericksen, R Eric ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direction perception; Displacement; Motion; Natural scenes; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0030798096     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00007-2     Document Type: Article

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