Cortical components of the Westheimer function

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2535-2544

  Yu, C ^a   Levi, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Interocular transfer; Perceptive field; Spatial filter; Westheimer function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEROCULAR TRANSFER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0343990035     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00060-6     Document Type: Article

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