Neural and perceptual adjustments to dim light

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 203-208

  Peterson, Matthew ^a   Ohzawa, Izumi ^a,c   Freeman, Ralph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Dept of Biophysical Engineering ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Luminance; Temporal expansion; Temporal integration; Temporal frequency tuning; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DARKNESS; LUMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CATS; DARK ADAPTATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; LIGHT; NEURONS; OPTIC NEURITIS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035005749     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523801182052     Document Type: Article

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