Psychophysics of reading. XVIII. The effect of print size on reading speed in normal peripheral vision

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 2949-2962

  Chung, Susana T L ^a   Mansfield, J Stephen ^a   Legge, Gordon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Low vision; Peripheral vision; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; VISION; VISION TESTS; VISION, LOW;

EID: 0031695674     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00072-8     Document Type: Article

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