Physiological Mechanisms of Adaptation in the Visual System

Fitting the Mind to the World: Adaptation and After-Effects in High-Level Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ibbotson, Michael R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Motion aftereffect; Nervous system; Photoreceptors; Visual stimulus; Visual system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921595867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529699.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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