A neural computation for visual acuity in the presence of eye movements

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2898-2911

  Pitkow, Xaq ^a,c   Sompolinsky, Haim ^a,b   Meister, Markus ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; PROBABILITY; RETINA; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA INJURY; STATISTICS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ALGORITHMS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 38549108485     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050331     Document Type: Article

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