Yellow filters can improve magnocellular function: Motion sensitivity, convergence, accommodation, and reading

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1039, Issue , 2005, Pages 283-293

  Ray, Nicola J ^a   Fowler, S ^a   Stein, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cones; Density filters; Magnocellular system; Motion sensitivity; Reading impairment; Vergence eye movement; Visual motion processing

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADOLESCENT; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EXERCISE; FILTER; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENS; MAGNOCELLULAR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRISM; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 22144494991     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1325.027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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