The effect of chromatic and luminance information on reaction times

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 119-129

  O'Donell, Beatriz M ^a,b   Barraza, Jose F ^a,b   Colombo, Elisa M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Achromatic mechanism; Chromatic mechanism; Color vision; Psychophysics; Visual latency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77957377546     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523810000143     Document Type: Article

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