Symmetries in stimulus statistics shape the form of visual motion estimators

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12909-12914

  Fitzgerald, James E ^a,b   Katsov, Alexander Y ^b   Clandinin, Thomas R ^b   Schnitzer, Mark J ^a,b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Motion energy; Neuroscience; Sensory perception; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79961222401     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015680108     Document Type: Article

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