Neural encoding of binocular disparity: Energy models, position shifts and phase shifts

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1839-1857

  Fleet, David J ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^b   Heeger, David J ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular disparity; Energy models; Phase shifts; Position shifts; Simple and complex cells; Stereopsis

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029887277     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00313-4     Document Type: Article

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