A cortical model for binocular vergence control without explicit calculation of disparity

Neurocomputing

Volumn 73, Issue 7-9, 2010, Pages 1065-1073

  Gibaldi, Agostino ^a   Chessa, Manuela ^a   Canessa, Andrea ^a   Sabatini, Silvio P ^a   Solari, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Population coding; Retinal disparity; Vergence movements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CORTICAL MODELS; DISPARITY MAP; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; POPULATION CODING; RESPONSE TIME; VERGENCE CONTROL; VERGENCES;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77649237776     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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