Processing of transient signals in the visual system of the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and humans

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-25

  Feinkohl, Arne ^a   Klump, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird vision; Double pulse resolution; Visual temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DOUBLE PULSE RESOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LUMINANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STARLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STURNUS VULGARIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STARLINGS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650309839     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.09.020     Document Type: Article

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