Transient cells can be neurometrically sustained: The positional accuracy or retinal signals to moving targets

Journal of Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 232-242

  Ruttiger, Lukas ^a,c   Lee, Barry ^a,b   Sun, Hao ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ganglion cell; Magnocellular; Parvocellular; Vernier

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TIME; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0036977665     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/2.3.3     Document Type: Article

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