Visual search: Magno- and parvocellular systems or color and luminance processes?

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1259-1267

  Skottun, Bernt C ^a   Skoyles, John R ^b,c  

^a Skottun Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color; Isoluminance; Luminance; Magnocellular; Parvocellular; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LUMINESCENCE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 49549108943     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450701239434     Document Type: Article

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