Functional architecture of long-range perceptual interactions

Spatial Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-162

  Polat, Uri ^a  

^a Institute for Vision Research Rehovot   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FOCUSING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

CLASSICAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; COLLINEAR FILTERS; CONTRAST THRESHOLD;

COMPUTER VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033237826     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856899X00094     Document Type: Article

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