Reading speed benefits from increased vertical word spacing in normal peripheral vision

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 525-535

  Chung, Susana T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Low vision; Peripheral vision; Reading

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MONITORS; DEMONSTRATIONS; PRINTING; PROXIMITY SENSORS;

CRITICAL PRINT SIZE (CPS); RAPID SERIAL VISUAL REPRESENTATION (RSVR);

VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; READING; VISION; VISION TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3142771887     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200407000-00014     Document Type: Article

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