The effects of familiar size and object trajectories on time-to-contact judgements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 541-552

  Hosking, Simon G ^a   Crassini, Boris ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Familiar size; Interceptions; Off size; Time to contact; Timing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SIMULATION; TIME TO CONTACT; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MONOCULAR VISION; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956208575     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2258-7     Document Type: Article

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