Lower-level visual processing and models of light adaptation

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue , 1998, Pages 503-535

  Hood, D C ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ganglion cell; Psychophysics; Retina; Vision; Visual sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031601161     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.49.1.503     Document Type: Article

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