Learning retina implants with epiretinal contacts

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 281-289

  Eckimiller, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implant; Learning; Retinal degeneration; Retinal information processing; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLINDNESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY; FILTER; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE; VISION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; EYE, ARTIFICIAL; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030826554     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: 14230259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000268026     Document Type: Article

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