Illusory stimuli can be used to identify retinal blind spots

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Crossland, Michael D ^a   Dakin, Steven C ^a   Bex, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; PERIMETRY; POLYPOIDAL CHOROIDAL VASCULOPATHY; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCOTOMA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HISTOLOGY; ILLUSION; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCOTOMA; SOFTWARE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42349107941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001060     Document Type: Article

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