High and low luminance letters, acuity reserve, and font effects on reading speed

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2527-2531

  Yager, Dean ^a   Aquilante, Kathy ^a   Plass, Robert ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation; Luminance; Psychophysics; Reading; Vision loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL ACUITY;

HUMANS; LIGHTING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031879240     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00116-3     Document Type: Article

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