Attention makes moving objects be perceived to move faster

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 166-178

  Turatto, Massimo ^a,b   Vescovi, Massimo ^a   Valsecchi, Matteo ^a  

^a Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Motion perception; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33845664992     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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