Determining the point of subjective ambiguity of ambiguous biological-motion figures with perspective cues

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 161-167

  Schouten, Ben ^a   Verfaillie, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; VISION; WALKING;

CUES; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 77952508013     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.1.161     Document Type: Article

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