A new psychophysical method for determining the photopic spectral-luminosity function of the human eye

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2675-2680

  Rovamo, Jyrki ^d   Koljonen, Timo ^a,b   Näsänen, Risto ^c,d  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Optometry   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Human vision; Light level; Photopic luminosity function; Quantal noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0030245677     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00028-4     Document Type: Article

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