The geometry of visual perception: Retinotopic and nonretinotopic representations in the human visual system

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 479-492

  Öǧmen, Haluk ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nonretinotopic perception; Object files; Reference frames; Retinotopy; Visual system

Indexed keywords

VISION;

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; MOTION SEGMENTATION; OBJECT FILES; REFERENCE FRAME; RETINOTOPY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL SYSTEMS; VISUAL-PROCESSING;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 77949425558     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2039028     Document Type: Article

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