Illusory spatial offset of a flash relative to a moving stimulus is caused by differential latencies for moving and flashed stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-149

  Whitney, David ^a   Murakami, Ikuya ^a   Cavanagh, Patrick ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Illusory flash lag; Latency; Motion extrapolation; Motion perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; LATENT PERIOD; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033990475     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00166-2     Document Type: Article

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