Unifying Time to Contact Estimation and Collision Avoidance across Species

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Keil, Matthias S ^a,b   López Moliner, Joan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b and Behavior ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE;

COLLISIONS AVOIDANCE; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; FIRING RATES; PERFORMANCE; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; PROPERTY; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; RATE EQUATIONS; RESPONSE CURVES; TIME-TO-CONTACT;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME TO CONTACT; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84866075574     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002625     Document Type: Article

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