Retinal illuminance and contrast sensitivity in human infants

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-76

  Shannon, Elizabeth ^a,b   Skoczenski, Ann M ^a,c   Banks, Martin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell College of Medicine   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Human infants; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMATURITY; INFANT; LUMINANCE; MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMAN; INFANT; LIGHTING; PHOTOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PUPIL; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029655247     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00053-3     Document Type: Article

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