Image Processing: How the Retina Detects the Direction of Image Motion

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Fried, Shelley I ^a   Masland, Richard H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DENDRITE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPSE;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; MOTION PERCEPTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33846228290     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.12.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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