Coherence of structural visual cues and pictorial gravity paves the way for interceptive actions

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1-3

  Zago, Myrka ^a   La Scaleia, Barbara ^a   Miller, William L ^b   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interception; Pictorial; Scene inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054706918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.10.13     Document Type: Article

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