Anisotropies in judging the direction of moving natural scenes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Dakin, Steven C ^a   Apthorp, Deborah ^b   Alais, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Motion 2D; Structure of natural images; Temporal vision

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952637210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.11.5     Document Type: Article

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