Color Improves Object Recognition in Normal and Low Vision

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 899-911

  Wurm, Lee H ^a   Legge, Gordon E ^a   Isenberg, Lisa M ^a   Luebker, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VISION, LOW;

EID: 85046520038     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.19.4.899     Document Type: Article

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