title: A comparative study on visual choice reaction time for different colors in females.
abstract: Reaction time is one of the important methods to study a person's central information processing speed and coordinated peripheral movement response. Visual choice reaction time is a type of reaction time and is very important for drivers, pilots, security guards, and so forth. Previous studies were mainly on simple reaction time and there are very few studies on visual choice reaction time. The aim of our study was to compare the visual choice reaction time for red, green, and yellow colors of 60 healthy undergraduate female volunteers. After giving adequate practice, visual choice reaction time was recorded for red, green, and yellow colors using reaction time machine (RTM 608, Medicaid, Chandigarh). Repeated measures of ANOVA and Bonferroni multiple comparison were used for analysis and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The results showed that both red and green had significantly less choice visual choice reaction (P values <0.0001 and 0.0002) when compared with yellow. This could be because individual color mental processing time for yellow color is more than red and green.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya University, Deralakatte, Mangalore, Karnataka 575018, India.
authors.forename: Grrishma
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Balakrishnan
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya University, Deralakatte, Mangalore, Karnataka 575018, India.
authors.forename: Gurunandan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Uppinakudru
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Institute of National Importance, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Puducherry 605006, India.
authors.forename: Gaur
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Girwar Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya University, Deralakatte, Mangalore, Karnataka 575018, India.
authors.forename: Shobith
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bangera
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya University, Deralakatte, Mangalore, Karnataka 575018, India.
authors.forename: Aswini
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dutt Raghavendra
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College, Perambalur, Tamil Nadu 621113, India.
authors.forename: Dinesh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Thangavel