Predicting optimal accommodative performance from measures of the dark focus of accommodation

Human Factors

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 139-145

  Andre, Jeffrey T ^a,b   Owens, D Alfred ^a  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFRACTION ERROR; VISION TEST;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ATTENTION; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032942741     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872099779577309     Document Type: Article

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