The precision of velocity discrimination across spatial frequency

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1329-1336

  Chen, Yue ^a   Bedell, Harold E ^b,c   Frishman, Laura J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACCELERATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032197030     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03207995     Document Type: Article

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