Determining whether a ball will land behind or in front of you: Not just a combination of expansion and angular velocity

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 382-391

  Brouwer, Anne Marie ^a,d   López Moliner, Joan ^b   Brenner, Eli ^c   Smeets, Jeroen B J ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular expansion; Angular velocity; Fly balls; Interception strategy; Optical acceleration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MOTION PERCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 29144478330     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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