Evidence for the stochastic independence of the blue-yellow, red-green and luminance detection mechanisms revealed by subthreshold summation

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 733-745

  Mullen, Kathy T ^a   Sankeralli, Marcel J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color vision; Isoluminance; Red green and blue yellow mechanisms; Subthreshold summation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032917119     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00137-0     Document Type: Article

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