Motion rivalry impairs motion repulsion

Y Chen1, N Matthews, N Qian

  • 1Center for Neurobiology & Behavior, and Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, PI Annex Room 730, 722 W, 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Vision Research
|November 20, 2001
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