Macular pigment and the edge hypothesis of flicker photometry

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 3045-3051

  Bone, Richard A ^a   Landrum, John T ^a   Gibert, Jorge C ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge effect; Heterochromatic flicker photometry; Macular pigment

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL PIGMENTS;

EID: 4944242704     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.07.008     Document Type: Article

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