Color category influences heterogeneous visual search for color

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2309-2317

  Yokoi, Kenji ^a,b   Uchikawa, Keiji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CORRELATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COLOR PERCEPTION; VISUAL SEARCH;

COLOR VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR; CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28044434912     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.002309     Document Type: Article

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