What is binocular vision for? A birds' eye view

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1-19

  Martin, Graham R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Birds; Contralateral vision; Eye movements; Foraging; Lateral vision; Optic flow eld; Stereopsis; Visual fields

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAK; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; DARKNESS; EYE; EYE MOVEMENT; FLYING; GENICULATE BODY; HISTOLOGY; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RAPTOR; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BEAK; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DARKNESS; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENICULATE BODIES; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RAPTORS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 70449715355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.11.1     Document Type: Article

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