Recruitment mechanisms in speed and fine-direction discrimination tasks

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 3129-3143

  Festa, Elena K ^a   Welch, Leslie ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction discrimination; Motion; Random dots; Speed discrimination; Temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030829707     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00118-1     Document Type: Article

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