Emmetropization in chicks uses optical vergence and relative distance cues to decode defocus

Vision Research

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 3197-3204

  Wildsoet, Christine F ^a   Schmid, Katrina L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Chickens; Defocus; Emmetropization; Myopia

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE;

A SCAN; ACCOMMODATION; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CILIARY NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; HYPERMETROPIA; IMAGING; MYOPIA; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINOSCOPY; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CILIARY BODY; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE; LENSES; MALE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 0034757661     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00177-8     Document Type: Article

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