Effects of spatial frequency, duration, and contrast on discriminating motion directions

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2041-2048

  Yang, Jian ^a   Stevenson, Scott B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

COMPUTER VISION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MAGNOCELLULAR SYSTEMS; PARVOCELLULAR MECHANISMS; SPEED THRESHOLDS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0031215265     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.002041     Document Type: Article

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