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Mechanism of visual perception of movement

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We here present a logical mathematical model for the visual perception of movement in man; it is based on the treatment of signals in the retina in relation to time and distance and on the statistical theory of the separation of signal from noise in the visual system. It shows good agreement with experimental results and has made it possible to determine the comparative level of internal noise of the visual system, the mean rate of spread of excitation from the photoreceptors along the surface of the retina, and many other characteristics.

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  1. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    E. A. Ivanov & N. N. Lebedeva

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  1. E. A. Ivanov
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Biologicheskaya. No. 5. pp. 701–712, September–October, 1975.

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Ivanov, E.A., Lebedeva, N.N. Mechanism of visual perception of movement. Neurosci Behav Physiol 7, 34–43 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01148746

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