Perceiving motion transparency in the absence of component direction differences

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2187-2200

  Meso, Andrew Isaac ^a,b   Zanker, Johannes M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fourier spectrum; Global motion; Motion transparency; Phase; Speed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; LUMINESCENCE; MOTION; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 68249095196     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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