Speed tuning of motion segmentation and discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 4297-4308

  Masson, Guillaume S ^a   Mestre, Daniel R ^a   Stone, Leland S ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Hum Info Proc Research Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion perception; Speed discrimination; Speed segmentation; Structure from motion; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032730536     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00143-1     Document Type: Article

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