Effects of acute ethyl alcohol consumption on a psychophysical measure of lateral inhibition in human vision

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1539-1544

  Johnston, Kevin D ^a   Timney, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Increment threshold; Lateral inhibition; Westheimer function

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT VISION; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ETHANOL; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949113113     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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