Visual motion mechanisms under low retinal illuminance revealed by motion reversal

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 801-809

  Takeuchi, Tatsuto ^a   De Valois, Karen K ^b  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature tracking; Motion; Motion energy; Scotopic vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NIGHT VISION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 64049110471     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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