Summation of rod and S cone signals at threshold in human observers

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2681-2688

  Naarendorp, Franklin ^a   Rice, Kent S ^b   Sieving, Paul A ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Physiological summation; Probability summation; Rod cone interaction; Rods; S cones

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0030248212     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00023-5     Document Type: Article

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