Adult brightness vs. luminance as models of infant photometry: Variability, biasability, and spectral characteristics for the two age groups favor the luminance model

Journal of Vision

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 333-346

  Teller, Davida Y ^a   Pereverzeva, Maria ^a   Civan, Andrea L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias effects in brightness matching; Heterochromatic brightness matching; Infant color vision; Infant photometry; Infant vision; Motion photometry; Photometry; Variability of brightness matches

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PREDICTION; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTRUM; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; VARIANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ILLUMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIGHTING; PHOTOMETRY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0141559134     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/3.5.2     Document Type: Article

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