Simulation of artificial vision: I. Eccentric reading of isolated words, and perceptual learning

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 269-283

  Sommerhalder, Jörg ^a   Oueghlani, Evelyne ^a   Bagnoud, Marc ^a   Leonards, Ute ^a   Safran, Avinoam B ^a   Pelizzone, Marco ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eccentric reading; Learning; Reading performance; Simulation; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LETTER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; READING; RECOGNITION; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETINA; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0037299360     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00481-9     Document Type: Article

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