Cortical computation of stereo disparity

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-99

  Mcloughlin, Niall P ^a   Grossberg, Stephen ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex cells; Dichoptic masking; Neural network; Panum's limiting case; Stereopsis; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MASKING;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031986540     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00122-3     Document Type: Article

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