Natural images from the birthplace of the human eye

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Tkačik, Gašper ^a,b   Garrigan, Patrick ^c   Ratliff, Charles ^d   Milčinski, Grega ^e   Klein, Jennifer M ^a   Seyfarth, Lucia H ^f   Sterling, Peter ^f   Brainard, David H ^a   Balasubramanian, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e IDS Doo   (Slovenia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABOON; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CALIBRATION; CAMERA; COLOR VISION; DATA BASE; DIGITAL IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ANIMAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EYE; HUMAN;

PAPIO;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EYE; HUMANS; INTERNET; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79959211249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020409     Document Type: Article

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