Perception of scene-relative object movement: Optic flow parsing and the contribution of monocular depth cues

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1406-1419

  Warren, Paul A ^a,b   Rushton, Simon K ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Motion processing; Object movement; Optic flow; Psychophysics; Self movement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STEREOSCOPIC VISION;

CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 67349276626     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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