The role of lenticular senescence in age-related color vision changes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3698-3704

  Nguyen Tri, David ^a   Overbury, Olga ^b,c   Faubert, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0042844762     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-1191     Document Type: Article

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