Human discrimination of visual direction of motion with and without smooth pursuit eye movements

Journal of Vision

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 831-840

  Krukowski, Anton E ^a,b   Pirog, Kathleen A ^a   Beutter, Brent R ^a   Brooks, Kevin R ^a,b   Stone, Leland S ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active vision; Motion perception; Sensorimotor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; SACCADES; VISION;

EID: 1542319723     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/3.11.16     Document Type: Article

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