Stimulus magnification equates identification and discrimination of biological motion across the visual field

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 2827-2834

  Gurnsey, Rick ^a   Roddy, Gabrielle ^a   Ouhnana, Marouane ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Cortical magnification; Peripheral vision; Point light walkers; Size scaling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55649084636     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.016     Document Type: Article

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