The perception and discrimination of speed in complex motion

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2213-2227

  Clifford, Colin W G ^a   Beardsley, Scott A ^a   Vaina, Lucia M ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex motion; Optic flow; Psychophysics; Random dots; Speed perception; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; KINETICS; MOTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032899893     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00314-9     Document Type: Article

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