Pitfalls in estimating motion detector receptive field geometry

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-119

  Fredericksen, R Eric ^a   Verstraten, Frans A J ^b,c   Van De Grind, Wim A ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Motion detectors; Motion perception; Receptive field geometry; Spatial summation of motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031025799     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00074-0     Document Type: Article

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