Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1595-1607

  Laeng, Bruno ^a   Brennen, Tim ^b   Elden, Åke ^a   Gaare Paulsen, Helle ^a   Banerjee, Aniruddha ^c   Lipton, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic psychology; Color vision; Individual differences; Latitude; Light deprivation; Season of birth; Visual development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIRTHPLACE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LATITUDE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; SUNLIGHT; VISION;

ADULT; ARCTIC REGIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIGHT; MALE; NORWAY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEASONS;

EID: 34247899034     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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