Cortical visual processing is temporally dispersed by luminance in human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 133-136

  Kammer, Thomas ^a   Lehr, Lucia ^a   Kirschfeld, Kuno ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Luminance; Motor reaction times; Transmission time; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LIGHT; LUMINANCE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033605512     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00137-8     Document Type: Article

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