Dealing with Illumination in Visual Scenes: Effects of Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Porter, Gillian ^a   Leonards, Ute ^a   Troscianko, Tom ^a   Haworth, Judy ^b   Bayer, Antony ^c   Tales, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b South Glos Memory Service Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PREDICTION; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866722420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045104     Document Type: Article

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