Cortical Color Blindness is Not "Blindsight for Color"

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 410-423

  Heywood, C A ^a   Kentridge, R W ^a   Cowey, A ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Dept of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION DEFECT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; VISION;

BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0009628083     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1998.0364     Document Type: Article

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