Neural network model of short-term horizontal disparity vergence dynamics

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1383-1399

  Patel, S S ^a   Ogmen H ^a   White, J M ^b   Jiang, B C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparity vergence; Dynamical model; Eye movements; Neural network; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 0030945639     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00279-9     Document Type: Article

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