Psychophysical evidence for a radial motion bias in complex motion discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1569-1586

  Beardsley, Scott A ^a   Vaina, Lucia M ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex motion; Direction discrimination; Optic flow; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 15244343633     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.11.025     Document Type: Article

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