The neural processing of 3-D visual information: Evidence from eye movements

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 811-822

  Miles, F A ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocular following; Optic flow; Preattentive processing; Stereomechanisms; Vergence eye movements

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR VISION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; GAZE; LATENT PERIOD; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031901939     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00112.x     Document Type: Review

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