Mesopic visual efficiency II: Reaction time experiments

Lighting Research and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 335-354

  Walkey, H C ^a   Orrevetelainen P ^b   Barbur, J ^a   Halonen, L ^b   Goodman, Teresa ^c   Alferdinck, J ^d   Freiding, A ^e   Szalmas A ^f  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUMINANCE; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

MESOPIC VISUAL EFFICIENCY; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC; TIME SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

LIGHTING;

EID: 37249042140     PISSN: 14771535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477153507080920     Document Type: Article

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