Motion processing in pigeon tectum: Equiluminant chromatic mechanisms

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 434-444

  Sun, H J ^a   Frost, B J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equiluminance; Pigeon; Single cell recording; Tectum; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MAMMAL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030775642     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005771     Document Type: Article

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