Color and luminance vision in human amblyopia: Shifts in isoluminance, contrast sensitivity losses, and positional deficits

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 645-653

  Mullen, Kathy T ^a   Sankeralli, Marcel J ^a   Hess, Robert F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Color; Contrast; Isoluminance; Position

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS;

EID: 0030071543     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00159-X     Document Type: Article

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