Reading with simulated scotomas: Attending to the right is better than attending to the left

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1039-1048

  Fine, Elisabeth M ^a   Rubin, Gary S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Preferred retinal locus; Reading; Simulated scotoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; DISEASE SIMULATION; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCOTOMA; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; RETINAL DISEASES; SCOTOMA; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033045112     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00208-9     Document Type: Article

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