Chromatic temporal integration and retinal eccentricity: Psychophysics, neurometric analysis and cortical pooling

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 2657-2662

  Swanson, William H ^a   Pan, Fei ^b   Lee, Barry B ^b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatic sensitivity; Ganglion cells; Human; Macaque; Neurometric analysis; Temporal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 55149097030     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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