Brightness and darkness as perceptual dimensions

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1849-1858

  Vladusich, Tony ^a,c   Lucassen, Marcel P ^b,d   Cornelissen, Frans W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Lucassen Colour Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR VISION;

ACHROMATIC COLORS; COLOUR SPACES; COMMON SENSE; D-SPACE; GRAY SHADES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PERCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDIES; SPATIAL LOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

LUMINANCE;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR VISION; DARKNESS; PERCEPTION; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35748950122     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030179     Document Type: Article

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