Color and language: Worldwide distribution of Daltonism and distinct words for "blue"

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 409-412

  Brown, Angela M ^a   Lindsey, Delwin T ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue; Color vision deficiency; Daltonism; Geography; Phototoxicity; Red green

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DALTONISM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHOTOTOXICITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLOR; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PREVALENCE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 8344246939     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523804043093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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