Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: A critical review

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1266-1272

  Hutchinson, Claire V ^a   Arena, Amanda ^a   Allen, Harriet A ^b   Ledgeway, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Global motion; Random dot kinematograms

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; BODY MOVEMENT; GENDER; GLOBAL MOTION PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; STIMULUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857676954     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.02.009     Document Type: Review

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