Poorer color discrimination by females when tested with pseudoisochromatic plates containing vanishing designs on neutral backgrounds

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 501-505

  Baraas, Rigmor C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Children; Color vision; Color vision testing; Heterozygote; Pseudoisochromatic tests

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; COLOR VISION TEST; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HARDY RAND RITTLER PSEUDOISOCHROMATIC TEST; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NEITZ TEST OF COLOR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS;

EID: 46749102147     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523808080632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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