The spatiotemporal precision of ganglion cell signals: A comparison of physiological and psychophysical performance with moving gratings

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-33

  Sun, Hao ^a   Rüttiger, Lukas ^b,c   Lee, Barry B ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c HNO Clinic   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast; Magnocellular; Parvocellular; Spatiotemporal; Vernier

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GIANT CELL; GRATING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0242321187     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.08.017     Document Type: Article

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