How biological vision succeeds in the physical world

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

Volumn 111, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4750-4755

  Purves, Dale ^a,b,c   Monson, Brian B ^a   Sundararajan, Janani ^a   Wojtach, William T ^c  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIOGENESIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; LIGHT; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

BAYES' THEOREM; EMPIRICAL RANKING; LIGHTNESS; LUMINANCE; VISUAL STIMULI;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84897480755     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311309111     Document Type: Review

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