Observers cannot accurately estimate the speed of an approaching object in flight

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1919-1928

  Rushton, Simon K ^a,b   Duke, Philip A ^a,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action; Distance; Interception; Motion in depth; Speed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 67649210215     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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