The visual processing of motion-defined transparency

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1613, 2007, Pages 1049-1057

  Curran, William ^a   Hibbard, Paul B ^b   Johnston, Alan ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global motion; Motion integration; Motion perception; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOTILITY; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TRANSPARENCY; VISUAL CUE;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MOTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34249950017     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0260     Document Type: Article

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