Directional sensitivity of the retina: 75 Years of Stiles-Crawford effect

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1653, 2008, Pages 2777-2786

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical image in the eye; Photoreception; Phototropism; Retinal rods and cones; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EYE; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTORECEPTION; PIGMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VISION;

HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTON; PHOTOPIC VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTROPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 57349175903     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0712     Document Type: Review

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