Local nonlinearity in S-cones and their estimated light-collecting apertures

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1001-1006

  He, Sheng ^a   Macleod, Donald I A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone aperture; Light adaptation; Nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CONTRAST; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINANCE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; WAVEFORM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0032053699     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00330-1     Document Type: Article

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