The effect of stimulus size on human cortical potentials evoked by chromatic patterns

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 649-657

  Korth, Matthias ^a   Nguyen, Nhung X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatic VEP; L cones; M cones; Pattern VEP; S cones; Spatial summation; Stimulus size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COLOR PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031106698     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00189-7     Document Type: Article

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