Severe loss of positional information when detecting deviations in multiple trajectories

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1020-1043

  Tripathy, Srimant P ^a   Barrett, Brendan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Deviation detection; Motion perception; Multiple object tracking; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MONITORING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBSERVATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 19944416776     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.12.4     Document Type: Article

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