The efficiency of biological motion perception

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-95

  Gold, Jason M ^a   Tadin, Duje ^b   Cook, Susan C ^a   Blake, Randolph ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION;

EID: 40949142762     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.1.88     Document Type: Article

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