Mesopic spectral sensitivity functions based on visibility and recognition contrast thresholds

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 246-253

  Várady, Géza ^a   Bodrogi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Contrast detection threshold; Contrast recognition threshold; Mesopic; Photometry; Spectral sensitivity; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MESOPIC VISION; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISIBILITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 33646678438     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2006.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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