Human stereopsis is not limited by the optics of the well-focused eye

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 9814-9818

  Vlaskamp, Björn N S ^a,c   Yoon, Geunyoung ^d,e   Banks, Martin S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 79960055902     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0980-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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