title: Achromatic visual backward masking of colored stimuli in type I diabetes.
abstract: On a visual backward masking task using color stimuli with an achromatic patterned mask, we compared the masking performances of 3 Type I diabetics with those of 9 participants in a control group. Analysis indicated that the diabetics show a marked decrement in performance with blue stimuli and a lesser decrement with red stimuli. Suggestions for further theoretical and parametric studies are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Departement de psychologie, Université de Moncton, Canada. Muiseg@Umoncton.Ca
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Muise
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Blanchard
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: DesRosiers
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Caissie
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Watier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pelletier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000523:psychology*; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000523:psychology*; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011601:Psychophysics