The effect of spatial orientation on detecting motion trajectories in noise

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2077-2084

  Pavan, Andrea ^a,b   Casco, Clara ^b   Mather, George ^c   Bellacosa, Rosilari M ^b   Cuturi, Luigi F ^d   Campana, Gianluca ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motion; Motion detector; Orientation; Spatial jitter; Speed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80052688609     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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