Ancient historical scripture and color vision

Color Research and Application

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 332-333

  Pandey Vimal, Ram Lakhan ^a,b,c,d   Pandey Vimal, Manju Uma Chaturvedi ^a,b,c,d  

^a Vision Research Institute   (United States)

^b Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana ^*  (India)

^c Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana   (India)

^d NiceTech Computer Education   (India)

Author keywords

Color vision; Hallucinogenic drug "soma" and "Indra"; History; Indus Sarasvati cities; Meditation induced cortical color phosphenes; Mohenjo Daro and Harappa; Pressure induced retinal color phosphenes; Psychophysics; Rig Veda; Sleep deprivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347398103     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: 15206378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/col.20323     Document Type: Note

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