Local and global factors affecting the coherent motion of gratings presented in multiple apertures

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1581-1591

  Alais, David ^a   Van Der Smagt, Maarten J ^b   Van Den Berg, A V ^c   Van De Grind, W A ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coherence; Global; Local; Motion; Terminators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032104154     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00331-3     Document Type: Article

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