On the search for an appropriate metric for reaction time to suprathreshold increments and decrements

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 524-529

  Vassilev, Angel ^a,b   Murzac, Adrian ^b   Zlatkova, Margarita B ^c   Anderson, Roger S ^c,d  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast metric; Reaction time; Rod vision; S cone vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; METRIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 61449152761     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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