Combined use of several preferred retinal loci in patients with macular disorders when reading single words

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 873-879

  Duret, Florence ^a   Issenhuth, Marc ^a   Safran, Avinoam B ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Awareness of oculomotor behavior; Central scotoma; Preferred retinal locus (PRL); Reading; Scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCOTOMA; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; READING; SCOTOMA; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 0032891737     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00179-5     Document Type: Article

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