The uncertainty associated with visual flow fields and their influence on postural sway: Weber's law suffices to explain the nonlinearity of vection

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Wei, Kunlin ^a,b   Stevenson, Ian H ^b   Körding, Konrad P ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Detection discrimination; MotionV3D

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CUES; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79251587482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.14.1     Document Type: Article

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