Limits of peripheral direction discrimination of point-light walkers

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Gurnsey, Rick ^a   Roddy, Gabrielle ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Cortical magnification; Peripheral vision; Point light walkers; Size scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL FIELD; WALKING;

ARTIFACTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS; WALKING;

EID: 77955506353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.2.15     Document Type: Article

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