Accommodation and vergence require effort-to-see

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 467-473

  Francis, Ellie L ^a   Jiang, Bai Chuan ^b   Owens, D Alfred ^c   Tyrrell, Richard A ^d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Attention; Effort to see; Oculomotor adjustments; Vergence

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EYE PROTECTION;

VERGENCE;

VISION;

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ATTENTION; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038457893     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200306000-00014     Document Type: Article

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