The color of night: Surface color perception under dim illuminations

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 525-530

  Pokorny, Joel ^a   Lutze, Margaret ^a   Cao, Dingcai ^a   Zele, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Color appearance; Mesopic; Photopic; Rod color; Scotopic

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; NIGHT VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SAMPLING; UNIFORM COLOR SCALE; VISUAL SYSTEM; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SPECTROSCOPY;

COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; HUMANS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750107588     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806233492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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