Visual competition

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-21

  Blake, Randolph ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TIME; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036372150     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn701     Document Type: Article

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