Retest variability of human infant contrast sensitivity: How many tests are sufficient?

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 90-95

  Adams, Russell J ^a   Courage, Mary L ^a   Drover, James R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Infants; Reliability; Spatial vision; Vision

Indexed keywords

OPHTHALMOLOGY; PEDIATRICS;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY;

BINOCULAR VISION;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VISION;

EID: 0034000678     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200002000-00013     Document Type: Article

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