Deciding what to see: The role of intention and attention in the perception of apparent motion

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1096-1106

  Kohler, Axel ^a,b   Haddad, Leila ^a,b   Singer, Wolf ^a,b   Muckli, Lars ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center Frankfurt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apparent motion; Attention; Psychophysics; Voluntary control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 41049105444     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.020     Document Type: Article

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