Infant color vision: Prediction of infants' spontaneous color preferences

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1368-1381

  Zemach, Iris ^a   Chang, Susan ^a   Teller, Davida Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness; Hue; Infant color vision; Infant luminance; Preferential looking techniques; Saturation; Spontaneous color preferences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; JUDGMENT; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION TESTS;

EID: 34047266385     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.024     Document Type: Article

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