Infant color vision: Sharp chromatic edges are not required for chromatic discrimination in 4-month-olds

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1051-1057

  Thomasson, Melleny A ^a   Teller, Davida Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge cues; Infant color vision; Infant vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LIGHTING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0034020329     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00022-5     Document Type: Article

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