Filling-in of retinal scotomas

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 971-982

  Zur, Dror ^a,b   Ullman, Shimon ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical mechanism; Density; Filling in; Regularity; Retinal scotoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; DENSITY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037379861     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00038-5     Document Type: Article

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