Oculomotor synchronization of visual responses in modeled populations of retinal ganglion cells

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Poletti, Martina ^a   Rucci, Michele ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Drift retina; Fixational eye movements; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Microsaccade; Pairwise correlation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TIME; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 54949132583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.14.4     Document Type: Article

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