A positive correlation between fixation instability and the strength of illusory motion in a static display

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2421-2431

  Murakami, Ikuya ^a,b   Kitaoka, Akiyoshi ^c   Ashida, Hiroshi ^d  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Correlation; Fixational eye movements; Illusion; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES;

EID: 33645959521     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.030     Document Type: Article

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