Binocular integration of visual information: A model study on naturalistic optic flow processing

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2011, Pages

  Hennig, Patrick ^a   Kern, Roland ^a   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Modeling; Motion vision; Network interactions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CALLIPHORIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84857840469     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2011.00004     Document Type: Article

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