Relation between fixation disparity and the asymmetry between convergent and divergent disparity step responses

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 253-263

  Jaschinski, Wolfgang ^a   Švede, Aiga ^b   Jainta, Stephanie ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Convergence; Divergence; Nonius lines

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR DIVERGENCE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 38549158364     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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