What a difference a parameter makes: A psychophysical comparison of random dot motion algorithms

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1599-1612

  Pilly, Praveen K ^a   Seitz, Aaron R ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction estimation; Luminance contrast effects; Motion processing; Random dot motion; Spatiotemporal displacement tuning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; STIMULUS; VELOCITY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349244408     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.019     Document Type: Article

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