Human Newborn Color Vision: Measurement with Chromatic Stimuli Varying in Excitation Purity

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 22-34

  Adams, Russell J ^a,b   Courage, Mary L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b St Clare's Mercy Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LIGHT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIGHT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE;

EID: 0031602966     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1997.2407     Document Type: Article

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