Axis-of-motion affects direction discrimination, not speed discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2205-2211

  Matthews, Nestor ^a   Qian, Ning ^a  

^a Ctr for Neurobiology and Behavior ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Direction discrimination; Motion; Oblique effect; Speed discrimination; Velocity discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MODEL; MOTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032952171     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00300-9     Document Type: Article

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