Foggy perception slows us down

eLife

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pretto, Paolo ^a   Bresciani, Jean Pierre ^b,c   Rainer, Gregor ^c   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; DRIVER; FEMALE; FOG; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VELOCITY; VISIBILITY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECELERATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECELERATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEATHER;

EID: 84881518188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00031     Document Type: Article

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