Chromatic VEP assessment of human macular pigment: Comparison with minimum motion and minimum flicker profiles

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 275-283

  Robson, A G ^a,b   Holder, G E ^b   Moreland, J D ^c   Kulikowski, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Koniocellular; Macular pigment; Motion photometry; Parvocellular; Tritan selectivity; VEP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL FIELD;

COLOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646135777     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806232115     Document Type: Article

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