An empirical explanation of the flash-lag effect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 16338-16343

  Wojtach, William T ^b   Sung, Kyongje ^b   Truong, Sandra ^b   Purves, Dale ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image speed; Motion perception; Motion processing; Percentile rank; Perspective transformation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VELOCITY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55849114921     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808916105     Document Type: Article

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