Stopping the motion and sleuthing the flash-lag effect: Spatial uncertainty is the key to perceptual mislocalization

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 2605-2619

  Kanai, Ryota ^a   Sheth, Bhavin R ^b   Shimojo, Shinsuke ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flash lag effect; Motion; Signal strength; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; RETINA FOVEA; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL ILLUSION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 3242813675     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.10.028     Document Type: Article

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