The perceived rigidity of rotating eight-vertex geometric forms: Extracting nonrigid structure from rigid motion

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 541-556

  Sparrow, John E ^a   Stine, Wm Wren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetic depth effect; Motion perception; Shape cues; Signal detection; Structure from motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; ROTATION;

EID: 0032008270     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00164-8     Document Type: Article

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