No evidence of polarization sensitivity in freshwater sunfish from multi-unit optic nerve recordings

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 967-973

  Flamarique, Iñigo Novales ^a   Hawryshyn, Craig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cone mechanism; Lepomis; Polarization sensitivity; Sunfish

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; FISH; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; LIGHT; OPTIC NERVE; PERCIFORMES; ROTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0343307096     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00243-X     Document Type: Article

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