Stimulus duration, neural adaptation, and sweep visual evoked potential acuity estimates

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2759-2768

  Ridder III, William H ^a   McCulloch, Daphne ^b   Herbert, Andy M ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031764425     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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