Computer-based measurement of letter and word acuity

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 156-168

  Whatham, Andrew R ^a   Mermoud, Christophe ^a   Déruaz, Anouk ^a   Goldschmidt, Mira ^a   Zesiger, Pascal ^b   Safran, Avinoam B ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acuity reserve; Critical character size; Word acuity; Word length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33645131502     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2006.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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