Direction-of-motion discrimination is facilitated by visible motion smear

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-55

  Tong, Jianliang ^a   Aydin, Murat ^a   Bedell, Harold E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; MONOCULAR VISION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 34447336169     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194452     Document Type: Article

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