The size and number of plaid blobs mediate the misperception of Type-II plaid direction

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 143-150

  Alais, David ^a   Wenderoth, Peter ^a   Burke, Darren ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aperture size; Blobs; Direction perception; Intersection of constraints (IOC); Plaid motion; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031036588     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00320-7     Document Type: Article

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