A new motion illusion based on competition between two kinds of motion processing units: The Accordion Grating

Neural Networks

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1082-1092

  Gori, Simone ^a,b   Giora, Enrico ^c   Yazdanbakhsh, Arash ^d,e   Mingolla, Ennio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Accordion Grating; Aperture problem; Differential geometry; Line of sight; Motion; Projection line; Visual illusion

Indexed keywords

ACCORDION GRATING; APERTURE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; LINE OF SIGHT; MOTION; PROJECTION LINES; VISUAL ILLUSIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054781725     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: 18792782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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