COLOUR VISION TESTING: SCIENCE OR JUST BAD HABITS?

David Collis

doi:10.21307/asam-2015-002

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COLOUR VISION TESTING: SCIENCE OR JUST BAD HABITS?

Journal of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine

Volume 10 (2018): Issue 1 (June 2018)

By: David Collis

Open Access

|Jun 2018

Abstract

Colour vision testing has been and remains a controversial subject in aviation. Despite this, colour testing methods have remained essentially unchanged in many years. This presentation reviews the relevance of colour testing methodologies to modern aviation and presents a review of recent literature relating to colour vision and how it is affected by various physiological states and changes occurring with various pathological conditions; and the relevance of these discoveries to current and future aeromedical certification processes.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/asam-2015-002 | Journal eISSN: 2639-6416 | Journal ISSN: 1449-3764

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Published on: Jun 27, 2018

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