Investigation of bistable perception with the " silhouette spinner": Sit still, spin the dancer with your will

Vision Research

Volumn 60, Issue , 2012, Pages 34-39

  Liu, Chao Hsuan ^a   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^a,b,c   Hung, Daisy L ^a,b   Tseng, Philip ^a,b   Juan, Chi Hung ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active perception; Biological plausibility; Bistable motion perception; Intention; Voluntary control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BISTABLE MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; BODY MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINNING; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION; TAIWAN;

EID: 84860258333     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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