Color discrimination in carriers of color deficiency

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 2894-2900

  Hood, S M ^a   Mollon, J D ^a   Purves, L ^b   Jordan, G ^b  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatic discrimination; Color deficiency; Color vision; Heterozygote

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL TYPE; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33746990239     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.02.028     Document Type: Article

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