Detection and identification of mirror-image letter pairs in central and peripheral vision

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 331-337

  Higgins, Kent E ^a   Arditi, Aries ^a   Knoblauch, Kenneth ^b  

^a Lighthouse Research Institute   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Detection; Identification; Peripheral vision; Phase; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0029656225     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00117-I     Document Type: Article

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