Bright illusions reduce the eye's pupil

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2162-2167

  Laeng, Bruno ^a   Endestad, Tor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPIL REFLEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PUPIL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857128345     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118298109     Document Type: Article

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