Ultra-precise quantal timing: Evidence from simultaneity thresholds in long-range apparent movement

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 707-726

  Geissler, Hans Georg ^a   Schebera, Frank Uwe ^a   Kompass, Raul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PERIODICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033129593     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03205540     Document Type: Article

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