Rapid quantification of adult and developing mouse spatial vision using a virtual optomotor system

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4611-4616

  Prusky, Glen T ^a   Alam, Nazia M ^a   Beekman, Steven ^a   Douglas, Robert M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GRATING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTOMOTOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VERTICAL SINE WAVE; VIRTUAL OPTOMOTOR SYSTEM; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 9444222740     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0541     Document Type: Article

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