What learning to see arbitrary motion tells us about biological motion perception

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1096-1106

  Hiris, Eric ^a   Krebeck, Aurore ^a   Edmonds, Jennifer ^a   Stout, Alexandra ^a  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Form perception; Learning; Masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 27844441778     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.31.5.1096     Document Type: Article

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