High color-vision sensitivity in macaque and humans

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 119-125

  Loop, Michael S ^a   Crossman, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Helmholtz Kohlrausch effect; Macaque; Visual sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; LIGHT; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034073849     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800171123     Document Type: Article

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