Development of contrast sensitivity across the visual field in macaque monkeys (Macaca nemestrina)

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 239-247

  Kiorpes, Lynne ^a   Kiper, Daniel C ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Macaque monkey; Peripheral vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL FIELD;

AGING; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0029655702     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00097-J     Document Type: Article

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