Neuronal convergence in early contrast vision: Binocular summation is followed by response nonlinearity and area summation

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Meese, Tim S ^a   Summers, Robert J ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area summation; Binocular summation; Contrast gain control; Masking; Psychometric function; Spatial summation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 64949117364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.4.7     Document Type: Article

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