Interaction of on and off pathways for visual contrast measurement

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 81, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 515-532

  Neumann, Heiko ^a   Pessoa, Luiz ^b   Hanse, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CYBERNETICS; CYTOLOGY; GENICULATE BODY; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CYBERNETICS; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0033219762     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220050580     Document Type: Article

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