Temporal encoding of spatial information during active visual fixation

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 510-514

  Kuang, Xutao ^a   Poletti, Martina ^a   Victor, Jonathan D ^b   Rucci, Michele ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SACCADES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858631860     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.050     Document Type: Article

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