Evidence for the contribution of S cones to the detection of flicker brightness and red-green

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 994-1006

  Teufel, Harald J ^a   Wehrhahn, Christian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA CONE; VISION;

COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NAMES; PHOTOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLICKERING; LUMINESCENCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONE SIGNALS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0034203901     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.000994     Document Type: Article

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