Eye movements facilitate stereo-slant discrimination when horizontal disparity is noisy

Journal of Vision

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 780-794

  Berends, Ellen M ^a   Zhang, Zhi Lei ^a   Schor, Clifton M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular parallax; Binocular vision; Disparity gradient; Extrinsic disparity noise; Perception and eye movements; Slant discrimination; Stereopsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; BINOCULAR VISION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1542319719     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/3.11.12     Document Type: Article

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