Advantages and disadvantages of human dichromacy

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-223

  Sharpe, Lindsay T ^a   de Luca, Emmanuela ^b   Hansen, Thorsten ^c   Jägle, Herbert ^b   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colorblindness; Cones; Dichromacy; Red green color opponency; Sensitivity; Temporal modulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TYPE; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA CONE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLOR VISION DEFECT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; TIME; X CHROMOSOME;

OPSIN;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; OPSIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646561840     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.3.3     Document Type: Article

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