Where is the moving object now? Judgments of instantaneous position show poor temporal precision (SD = 70 ms)

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Linares, Daniel ^a   Holcombe, Alex O ^a   White, Alex L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Motion 2D; Temporal vision; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 77950353639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.13.1     Document Type: Article

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