Large receptive fields for optic flow detection in humans

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1731-1743

  Burr, David C ^a,b   Concetta Morrone, M ^a   Vaina, Lucia M ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Boston University College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Heading; Motion; Optic flow; Receptive fields; Summation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MOTION; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL SUMMATION; STIMULUS;

HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0344784419     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00346-5     Document Type: Article

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