Temporal summation for grating patches detected at low light levels

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 404-412

  Savage, Gary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

critical duration; impulse response function; periodic stimuli; scotopic; temporal summation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LIGHT; LIGHTING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CONTRAST THRESHOLDS; CRITICAL DURATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; LOW LIGHT LEVELS; PERIODIC STIMULI; RETINAL ILLUMINANCE; SCOTOPIC LUMINANCE; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

VISION;

EID: 0029666514     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199606000-00008     Document Type: Article

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