Early visual mechanisms do not contribute to synesthetic color experience

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1018-1026

  Hong, Sang Wook ^a   Blake, Randolph ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness contrast; Chromatic adaptation; Color graphemic synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 41049109806     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.01.024     Document Type: Article

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