The efficiency of speed discrimination for coherent and transparent motion

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 2795-2810

  Wallace, Julian Michael ^a,b   Mamassian, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Correspondence problem; Efficiency; Ideal observer; MT; Transparent motion

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIRECTIONAL VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0642310187     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00463-2     Document Type: Article

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