What human limitations are there to object tracking and recognition?
I think you will want to look into ecological psychological models for perception.

Some cornerstones include 'the gorila study' show inattentional blindness

Others are among the many sub-phenomenon with Persistence of Vision studies, many of which now focus on the a concept called Iconic Memory.  These matters deal with misapprehension of (usually incomplete) visual stimuli due to the action of cognition to create a meaningful recogition (e.g. probably what is 'ready for encoding / memory').  This also generally covers the phenomenology where we receive too-few stilimuli (objects moving too fast), and must cognize the available information to create meaning.

Here are a few good perspectives on human vision.  This is far from being a comprehensive set of human vision limitations, but if you dig into their references, you will find much of the community that studies this topic.


Shaffer, D., Dolgov, I., Maynor, A., &amp; Kelly, K. (in press). Blind(fold)ed by science: 
A constant target-heading angle is used in visual and nonvisual pursuit. 
Psychological Science. 
Schwark, J., Sandry, J., McDonald, J., &amp; Dolgov, I. (2012). False feedback in vigilance 
tasks. Attention, Perception, &amp; Psychophysics, 74, 1583-1589
Dolgov, I., McBeath, M., &amp; Sugar, T. (2009). Evidence for axis-aligned motion 
bias: Football axis-trajectory misalignment causes systematic error in projected 
final destinations of thrown American footballs. Perception, 38(3), 399-410.


(source / disclosure, I know some of the authors of the above papers)