Human vergence eye movements initiated by competing disparities: Evidence for a winner-take-all mechanism

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 479-500

  Sheliga, B M ^a   FitzGibbon, E J ^a   Miles, F A ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparity energy; Mutual inhibition; Nonlinear interactions; Weighted average

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WAVEFORM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 33846596693     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.027     Document Type: Article

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