Legibility variations of Chinese characters and implications for visual acuity measurement in Chinese reading population

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2383-2390

  Zhang, Jun Yun ^a,b   Zhang, Ting ^a,b   Xue, Feng ^c   Liu, Lei ^d   Yu, Cong ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; READING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ASIAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISION TEST; WRITING;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; READING; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WRITING;

EID: 34250203585     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1195     Document Type: Article

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