Stereopsis is adaptive for the natural environment

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Sprague, William W ^a,b   Cooper, Emily A ^c   Tošić, Ivana ^d   Banks, Martin S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Ricoh Innovations Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS;

BINOCULAR DISPARITY; CORRESPONDENCE SEARCHES; CORTICAL NEURONS; NATURAL DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; RETINAL IMAGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCENES; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

BINOCULARS;

EID: 84959428441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400254     Document Type: Article

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