Brightness contrast perception in the mesopic region

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 300-312

  Freyssinier, J P ^a   Rea, M S ^a   Bullough, J D ^a  

^a Lighting Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness; Colour; Contrast; Mesopic vision; Purkinje shift

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LUMINANCE; MALE; MESOPIC VISION; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RODS (RETINA); VISION;

EID: 33646707813     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2006.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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