A slowly moving foreground can capture an observer's self-motion - A report of a new motion illusion: Inverted vection

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 2915-2923

  Nakamura, Shinji ^a   Shimojo, Shinsuke ^b,c  

^a TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depth; Foreground; Self motion; Vection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033796042     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00149-8     Document Type: Article

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