Bilateral long-range interaction between right and left visual hemifield

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1490-1503

  Tanaka, Yasuto ^a   Miyauchi, Satoru ^a   Misaki, Masaya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Contrast detection facilitation; Gabor signals; Long range interaction; Mirror symmetry; Vertical meridian

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34247094722     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.01.024     Document Type: Article

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