Coherent motion threshold measurements for M-cell deficit differ for above- and below-average readers

Optometry

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 727-734

  Solan, Harold A ^a   Hansen, Peter C ^b   Shelley Tremblay, John ^c   Ficarra, Anthony ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent motion; Magnocellular; Neurophysiological; Oculomotor; Reading disability; Vision attention; Vision therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; READING;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0742287429     PISSN: 15291839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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