How does the short-wavelength-sensitive contrast sensitivity function for detection and resolution change with age in the periphery?

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 1894-1901

  Beirne, Raymond O ^a   Zlatkova, Margarita B ^a   Chang, Chin Kuo ^a   Chakravarthy, Usha ^b   Anderson, Roger S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Contrast sensitivity function; Short wavelength sensitive

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMETRY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 48349089922     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.024     Document Type: Article

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