Colour blindness in everyday life and car driving

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 436-442

  Tagarelli, Antonio ^a   Piro, Anna ^a   Tagarelli, Giuseppe ^a   Lantieri, Pasquale Bruno ^b   Risso, Domenico ^b   Olivieri, Rosario Luciano ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Car driving; Colour blindness; Everyday tasks; Everyday work; Ishihara test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION DEFECT; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRIVER LICENCE; HUMAN; ITALY; LEISURE; MALE; NIGHT; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 4444227123     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1395-3907.2004.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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