Human S-cone vision: Relationship between perceptive field and ganglion cell dendritic field

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 823-833

  Vassilev, Angel ^a   Ivanov, Ilia ^a   Zlatkova, Margarita B ^b   Anderson, Roger S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local scale; Ricco's area; S cones; Spatial summation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DENDRITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 29544432781     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.10.6     Document Type: Article

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