Visual performance in night-time driving conditions

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 254-263

  Eloholma, M ^a   Ketomaki J ^a   Orrevetelainen P ^a   Halonen, L ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Driving; Luminance; Mesopic vision; Photometry; Visual performance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CALCULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DRIVING ABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LUMINANCE; MESOPIC VISION; NIGHT; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION;

EID: 33646672869     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2006.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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