Peripheral vision: Good for biological motion, bad for signal noise segregation?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Thompson, Benjamin ^a   Hansen, Bruce C ^a   Hess, Robert F ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Noise segregation; Peripheral vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD; WALKING;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS; WALKING;

EID: 34547521359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.10.12     Document Type: Article

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