Beyond distance and direction: The brain represents target locations non-metrically

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-27

  Thaler, Lore ^a   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coordinate transformations; Hand movements; Maximum likelihood estimation; Spatial representation; Visual perception; Visuomotor transformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954311059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.3.3     Document Type: Article

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