Alerting effects of light are sensitive to very short wavelengths

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 399, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 96-100

  Revell, Victoria L ^a,b   Arendt, Josephine ^a   Fogg, Louis F ^b   Skene, Debra J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alertness; Human; Light; Short wavelength light; Spectral sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE;

EID: 33646120811     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.032     Document Type: Article

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