Motion integration and postdiction in visual awareness

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5460, 2000, Pages 2036-2038

  Eagleman, David M ^a,c   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^a,b,c  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AWARENESS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034678028     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5460.2036     Document Type: Article

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31. Demonstrations of the stimuli and supplemental information can be found at www.cnl.salk.edu/ ~eagleman/flashlag.
32. We thank R. Rao, T. Wachtler, F. Crick, O. Braddick, T. Albright, and A. Messinger for helpful discussions. Supported by the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology and by an National Institute of Mental Health training grant in cognitive neuroscience.