Adaptive pooling of visual motion signals by the human  visual system revealed with a novel multi-element stimulus

Amano, Kaoru; Edwards, Mark; Badcock, David Russell; Nishida, Shin'ya

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Adaptive pooling of visual motion signals by the human visual system revealed with a novel multi-element stimulus

Date

2009

Authors

Amano, Kaoru

Edwards, Mark

Badcock, David Russell

Nishida, Shin'ya

Publisher

Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology

Abstract

The two-dimensional (2D) trajectory of visual motion is usually not directly available to the visual system. Local one-dimensional (1D) sensors initiate processing but can only restrict the solution to a set of speed and direction combinations consistent