Detection and discrimination of optical flow components

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-30

  Blake, Randolph ^a   Aiba, Thomas Satoru ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherent motion; Motion; Optic flow; Visual detection; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032264468     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.00071     Document Type: Article

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