Eye movements during fixation as velocity noise in minimum motion detection

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 54-66

  Murakami, Ikuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Correlation; Eye movement; Motion detection; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953656999     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2010.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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