Light adaptation of human rod receptors: the leading edge of the human a-wave and models of rod receptor activity

Vision Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1605-1618

  Hood, Donald C ^a   Birch, David G ^b  

^a Department of Psychology Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; ERG; Human; Receptor; Rod

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DARK ADAPTATION; FILTER; HUMAN; LIGHT; LIGHT ADAPTATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RODS (RETINA); SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027199939     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(93)90027-T     Document Type: Article

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