Tracking planets and moons: Mechanisms of object tracking revealed with a new paradigm

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 738-750

  Tombu, Michael ^a   Seiffert, Adriane E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive factors logic; Multiple object tracking (MOT); Proximity; Size; Speed

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATTENTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOON; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOON; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PLANETS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 79959704413     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0060-z     Document Type: Article

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