A model of the dynamics of retinal activity during natural visual fixation

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-230

  Desbordes, Gaëlle ^a   Rucci, Michele ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixational eye movements; Microsaccade; Natural images; Pairwise correlation; Redundancy reduction; Retinal ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RETINA; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34447623923     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523807070460     Document Type: Article

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