Effects of background color on detecting spot stimuli in the upper and lower visual fields

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 558-563

  Maehara, Goro ^a   Okubo, Matia ^b   Michimata, Chikashi ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsal system; Magno dominated stream; Red background; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTOMETRY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3042612030     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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