Relationship between visual span and reading performance in age-related macular degeneration

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 577-588

  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

Age related macular degeneration; Information transfer rate; Letter recognition; Low vision; Reading speed; Visual span

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCOTOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SCOTOMA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION TESTS; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 38749094080     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.022     Document Type: Article

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