Time-to-passage judgments on circular trajectories are based on relative optical acceleration

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1153-1170

  Kerzel, Dirk ^a   Hecht, Heiko ^b   Kim, Nam Gyoon ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035490483     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194531     Document Type: Article

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