Spatial summation properties of the human ocular following response (OFR): Evidence for nonlinearities due to local and global inhibitory interactions

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1758-1776

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

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Normalization; Visual motion; Winner take all

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47249141169     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.017     Document Type: Article

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