Word acuity threshold as a function of contrast and retinal eccentricity

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 914-919

  Abdelnour, Ola ^a   Kalloniatis, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Low vision; Peripheral vision; Reading; Resolution

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS;

ECCENTRICITY;

VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0035673436     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200112000-00014     Document Type: Article

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