Unveiling the foveal blue scotoma through an afterimage

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 377-383

  Magnussen, Svein ^a,b,c   Spillmann, Lothar ^a   Stürzel, Frank ^a   Werner, John S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foveal tritanopia; Perceptual filling in; Scotoma; Stabilized images

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

AFTERIMAGE; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA CONE; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SCOTOMA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISIBILITY; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0344196825     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.09.023     Document Type: Article

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