Contribution of configural information in a direction discrimination task: Evidence using a novel masking paradigm

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2503-2508

  McKay, Lawrie S ^a   Simmons, David R ^a   McAleer, Phil ^a   Pollick, Frank E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Form; Masking; Point light motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349446458     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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