Human scotopic spatiotemporal sensitivity: A comparison of psychophysical and electrophysiological data

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-207

  Benedek, György ^a   Benedek, Krisztina ^b   Kéri, Szabolcs ^b   Letoha, Tamás ^a   Janáky, Márta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Magnocellular pathway; Scotopic vision; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0344837375     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022548013313     Document Type: Article

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