Contrast is enhanced by yellow lenses because of selective reduction of short-wavelength light

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 73-81

  Wolffsohn, James S ^a   Cochrane, Anthea L ^b   Khoo, Hana ^b   Yoshimitsu, Yota ^b   Wu, Shirley ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Color vision; Contrast sensitivity; Filters; Subjective rating; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

ACCOMMODATIVE CONVERGENCE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; SUBJECTIVE RATING; VISUAL ACUITY;

CONTACT LENSES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034000677     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200002000-00011     Document Type: Article

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