Travel distance estimation from visual motion by leaky path integration

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-48

  Lappe, Markus ^a   Jenkin, Michael ^b   Harris, Laurence R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distance perception; Human; Path integration; Self motion; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249879819     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0835-6     Document Type: Article

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