How do spontaneous pupillary oscillations in light relate to light intensity?

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-300

  Warga, Max ^a   Lüdtke, Holger ^a,b   Wilhelm, Helmut ^a   Wilhelm, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Steinbeis Transfer Center for Biomedical Optics and Function Testing Tuebingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infrared video pupillography; Light induced pupillary oscillations; Pupil; Pupillographic sleepiness test; Sleepiness waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; PUPILLOGRAPHY; SOMNOLENCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHTING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349111437     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.019     Document Type: Article

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