Contrast adaptation in retinal and cortical evoked potentials: No adaptation to low spatial frequencies

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 645-650

  Heinrich, Thomas Stephan ^a   Bach, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast adaptation; Contrast sensitivity; Electroretinogram; Spatial vision; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036764472     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523802195095     Document Type: Article

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