Experience, context, and the visual perception of human movement

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 822-835

  Jacobs, Alissa ^a   Pinto, Jeannine ^b   Shiffrar, Maggie ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 4744364030     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.30.5.822     Document Type: Article

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