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Targeting visual motion

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A new stimulus display reveals that humans summate the motion energies of all components consistent with a single velocity, rather than optimizing sensitivity by ignoring noise.

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Figure 1: Computation of motion from its components.
Figure 2: Stimuli used by Schrater et al., depicted in three-dimensional spatiotemporal frequency space.

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