Optical, receptoral, and retinal constraints on foveal and peripheral vision in the human neonate

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3857-3870

  Candy, T Rowan ^a   Crowell, James A ^b   Banks, Martin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acuity; Contrast sensitivity; Infant; Retinal eccentricity; Visual efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY;

CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OPTICS; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031694898     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00080-7     Document Type: Article

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