Infant color vision: Temporal contrast sensitivity functions for chromatic (Red/Green) stimuli in 3-month-olds

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 2699-2716

  Dobkins, Karen R ^a   Barry, Lia ^b   Teller, Davida Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatic; Infant color vision; Luminance; Motion; Temporal contrast sensitivity functions; Visual development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LUMINANCE; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0343580438     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)81180-7     Document Type: Article

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