Visual fields and eye movements in a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 2804-2814

  Hanke, Wolf ^a   Römer, Raffaela ^a   Dehnhardt, Guido ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye motility; Harbor seal; Perimetry; Phoca vitulina; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIMETRY; PHOCA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; VISUAL FIELD; ANIMAL; EYE FIXATION; METHODOLOGY; MONOCULAR VISION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; PERIMETRY; PHOCA; PSYCHOMETRICS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33747338332     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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