Convergent evidence for the visual analysis of optic flow through anisotropic attenuation of high spatial frequencies

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 415-426

  Barlow, Horace B ^a   Olshausen, Bruno A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Redwood Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Glass patterns; Motion; Motion blur; Optic flow; Phase spectrum; Power spectrum

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAMMAL; MODULATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTORECEPTOR; POWER SPECTRUM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANISOTROPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTIC NERVE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 3843112581     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.6.1     Document Type: Article

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