Velocity tuned mechanisms in human motion processing

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3267-3286

  Reisbeck, Tobias E ^a   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast; Isoluminance; Motion perception; Noise; Spatio temporal separability; Velocity tuning

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CONTRAST; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VELOCITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033057628     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00017-6     Document Type: Article

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