Necessary but not sufficient: Motion perception is required for perceiving biological motion

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1144-1149

  Garcia, Javier O ^a   Grossman, Emily D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Isoluminance; Motion perception; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL VISION; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; LUMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BIOLOGY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 41649085549     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.01.027     Document Type: Article

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