The absence of lateral congruency between sighting dominance and the eye with better visual acuity

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-110

  Pointer, Jonathan S ^a  

^a Optometric Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye dominance; Lateral congruency; Ocular dominance; Sighting dominance; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; EYE; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

DOMINANCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846069136     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2006.00414.x     Document Type: Article

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