Infant color vision: Moving tritan stimuli do not elicit directionally appropriate eye movements in 2- and 4-month-olds

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 899-911

  Teller, Davida Y ^a   Brooks, Thomas E W ^a   Palmer, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Eye movements; Infant vision; Isoluminance; Motion; Motion nulling; Optokinetic nystagmus (OKN); S cones; Tritan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030955011     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)89820-3     Document Type: Article

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