Measurement of Rate of Expansion in the Perception of Radial Motion

Optic flow generated by rigid surface patches can be decomposed into a small number of elementary motion types. In these experiments, we show that the human visual system can evaluate expansion, one of these motion types, metrically. Moreover, we show that the discrimination of rates of expansion ar...

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Authors: Wurfel, Jeff D., Barraza, Jose Fernando, Grzywacz, Norberto M.
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2005
Country:Argentina
Institution:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repository:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/101793
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/101793
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.11
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
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Summary:Optic flow generated by rigid surface patches can be decomposed into a small number of elementary motion types. In these experiments, we show that the human visual system can evaluate expansion, one of these motion types, metrically. Moreover, we show that the discrimination of rates of expansion are spatially local. Because the estimation of the focus of expansion is somewhat imprecise, this locality sometimes produces predictable errors in the estimation of rate of expansion. One can make predictions like this with a model adapted from one previously developed for angular-velocity discrimination.