On the relationship between orbit orientation and binocular visual field overlap in mammals

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1104-1110

  Heesy, Christopher P ^a  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Mammals; Orbit orientation; Stereopsis; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; ORBIT; ORBIT CONVERGENCE; ORIENTATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EYE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; ORBIT; ORIENTATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; STEREOPSIS;

EID: 7644235763     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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