Retinal locus for scanning text

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 749-760

  Timberlake, George T ^a,b   Sharma, Manoj K ^a   Grose, Susan A ^a   Maino, Joseph H ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eccentric viewing; Fixation; Fixation PRL; Preferred retinal locus; Reading; Reading rehabilitation; Retinal function mapping; Scanning laser ophthalmoscope; Text scanning; Text scanning PRL

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; TEXT PROCESSING; VISION;

ECCENTRIC VIEWING; FIXATION PRL; PREFERRED RETINAL LOCUS; READING REHABILITATION; RETINAL FUNCTION MAPPING; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; TEXT SCANNING; TEXT SCANNING PRL;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; READING; RETINA;

EID: 33846274580     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2005.06.0102     Document Type: Article

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