Characteristics of accommodative behavior during sustained reading in emmetropes and myopes

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 2581-2592

  Harb, Elise ^a   Thorn, Frank ^a   Troilo, David ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Accommodative microfluctuations; Myopia; Reading

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MYOPIA; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTROSCOPY; STUDENT T TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MYOPIA; READING; RETINOSCOPY;

EID: 33646020365     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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