Spatial warping by oriented line detectors can counteract neural delays

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Vaughn, Don A ^a   Eagleman, David M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hering illusion; Neural delays; Neural latency; Orientation tuning; Postdiction; Prediction; Spatial cognition; Time and motion studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889655658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00794     Document Type: Article

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