Stimulus requirements for the decoding of myopic and hyperopic defocus under single and competing defocus conditions in the chicken

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2242-2252

  Diether, Sigrid ^a   Wildsoet, Christine F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH; HYPERMETROPIA; LENS; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA CONE; RETINA IMAGE; RETINOSCOPY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ANIMAL; CILIARY BODY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DENERVATION; INNERVATION; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHICKENS; CILIARY BODY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DENERVATION; HYPEROPIA; MYOPIA; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

EID: 23244464494     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-1200     Document Type: Article

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