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S/N/269. Critically evaluate the assertion that interceptive timing is based on tau

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1900
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2009
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The paper examines the human ability to estimate the time-to-contact (TTC) and the time-to-passage (TTP) of an object arguing whether interceptive timing is based on the rate of change of the visual angle over time known as tau, and addressing the debate about which optical variables are used in the computation of interceptive timing.

 

KEYWORDS: interceptive timing, tau, time-to-contact, time-to-passage,

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