Low-vision reading speed: Influences of linguistic inference and aging

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 166-177

  Sass, Sarah M ^a,c   Legge, Gordon E ^a,d   Lee, Hye Won ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d N218 Elliott Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Low vision; Reading; Reading speed

Indexed keywords

VISION;

AGING; READING; READING SPEED;

VISUALIZATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; READING; VISION, LOW; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645100018     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.opx.0000204752.43520.17     Document Type: Article

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