Relationship between slow visual processing and reading speed in people with macular degeneration

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2943-2955

  Cheong, Allen M Y ^a   Legge, Gordon E ^a   Lawrence, Mary G ^a   Cheung, Sing Hang ^b   Ruff, Mary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Central field loss; Letter recognition; Macular degeneration; Peripheral vision; Reading speed; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERIMETRY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION TESTS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, LOW; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34948836234     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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