Rotating dotted ellipses: Motion perception driven by grouped figural rather than local dot motion signals

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1979-1991

  Caplovitz, G P ^a   Tse, P U ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture problem; Contour curvature; Global motion; Local motion; Perceptual grouping; Rotational motion; Trackable features

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VELOCITY; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION;

EID: 34250325159     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.12.022     Document Type: Article

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