Aging, perception, and visual short-term memory for luminance-defined form

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 314-322

  Sara, Mona ^a   Faubert, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034096278     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(99)00095-2     Document Type: Article

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