The development of chromatic and achromatic contrast sensitivity in infancy as tested with the sweep VEP

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 2057-2072

  Kelly, John P ^a,c   Borchert, Katja ^b   Teller, Davida Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant color vision; Infant contrast sensitivity functions; Uniform vs differential loss; Visual development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0030878344     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00011-4     Document Type: Article

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