Science news articles about 'motion perception'

BIRMINGHAM, England, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- British and German researchers say they have developed and tested a mathematical model of how the human brain predicts the motion of approaching objects.

... like—with no form at all, just motion." Many previous studies of biological motion perception have relied on male figures as models, van der Zwan said. One of those earlier studies had noticed an ...

... team member Ichiro Kuriki, PhD (associate professor, Tohoku University). "The illusory motion percept is not just the observer's imagination." The researchers compared levels of eye movements as ...

... and important functions related to 3-D motion perception may have been previously overlooked in MT+," says Alexander Huk ... the MT+ area processes 3-D motion: it simultaneously encodes two types of cues ...

... speeds and positions cannot be known directly, Purves said. The lag is present in all normal motion perceptions, but has to be demonstrated in the lab. "We are simply not aware of it since we have no ...

... have already changed location as we move toward it. Our perception lags behind reality. The visual system ... clay court," where skid marks on the clay reduce reliance on the referees' motion perception. ...

... the Pfeiffer Foundation, the Schmitt Foundation, and the National Eye Institute. The team focused on motion perception, since it's an aspect of vision critical for most everyday tasks. The team's aim ...

... , those who performed the worst on the driving test were those who had the lowest scores on tests of visual processing speed, motion perception, sensitivity to visual contrast and speed of movement.