Can the magnocellular pathway read? Evidence from studies of color

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1211-1222

  Chase, Christopher ^a   Ashourzadeh, Arash ^a   Kelly, Charlotte ^a   Monfette, Sharon ^b   Kinsey, Kristofer ^c  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Reading; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LUMINANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RED LIGHT; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037403253     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00085-3     Document Type: Article

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