Gaze-shift dynamics in subjects with and without symptoms of convergence insufficiency: Influence of monocular preference and the effect of training

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 3095-3107

  Van Leeuwen, Anna F ^a,b   Westen, Marion J ^a   Van Der Steen, Johannes ^a   De Faber, Jan Tjeerd H N ^b   Collewijn, Han ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Convergence insufficiency; Human; Preferred eye; Scleral coils

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOPIA; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TRAINING;

ADULT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PATIENT EDUCATION; READING; SACCADES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 0032970418     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00066-8     Document Type: Article

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