Open angle glaucoma effects on preattentive visual search efficiency for flicker, motion displacement and orientation pop-out tasks

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1493-1498

  Loughman, James ^a   Davison, Peter ^a   Flitcroft, Ian ^b  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FLICKER FUSION; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 35748972992     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2006.108084     Document Type: Article

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