A self-calibrating, camera-based eye tracker for the recording of rodent eye movements

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Zoccolan, Davide ^a,b   Graham, Brett J ^a   Cox, David D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Eye tracking; Rat; Rodent; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84155187247     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00193     Document Type: Article

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