Neural mechanisms for encoding binocular disparity: Receptive field position versus phase

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 874-890

  Anzai, Akiyuki ^a   Ohzawa, Izumi ^a   Freeman, Ralph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EYE POSITION; FIXATION FAILURE; HISTOGRAM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0032794084     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.2.874     Document Type: Article

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