Sex & vision I: Spatio-temporal resolution

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Abramov, Israel ^a,b,c   Gordon, James ^b,c,d   Feldman, Olga ^a   Chavarga, Alla ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84875671476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2042-6410-3-20     Document Type: Article

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