Spatiotemporal configuration dependent pairing of nerve events in dark-adapted human vision

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 241-253

  Bouman, Maarten A ^a,b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PROBABILITY;

QUANTUM ABSORPTION;

VISION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIGHT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 0036482140     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.000241     Document Type: Article

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