Integration and segregation of local motion signals: The role of contrast polarity

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 811-822

  Van Der Smagt, Maarten J ^a   Van De Grind, Wim A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Motion integration; Motion segmentation; OFF detector; ON detector

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0032939843     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00133-3     Document Type: Article

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