Integration of sensory evidence in motion discrimination

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Jazayeri, Mehrdad ^a,b   Movshon, J Anthony ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Motion perception; Population coding; Subthreshold summation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34648828381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.12.7     Document Type: Article

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