Increased accommodation following adaptation to image blur in myopes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1111-1119

  Vera Diaz, Fuensanta A ^a   Gwiazda, Jane ^a   Thorn, Frank ^a   Held, Richard ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accomodation; Adaptation; Blur; Emmetropia; Myopia; Neurosensory; Oculomotor

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EMMETROPIA; HUMAN; MONOCULAR VISION; MYOPIA; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE REFRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MYOPIA; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 26044466197     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.12.10     Document Type: Article

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