Diagnostic spatial frequencies and human efficiency for discriminating actions

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 572-580

  Thurman, Steven M ^a   Grossman, Emily D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action recognition; Biological motion; Bubbles; Ideal observer; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VIDEORECORDING;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 79951942565     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0028-z     Document Type: Article

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