Adaptive strategies for reading with a forced retinal location

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Lingnau, Angelika ^a,b   Schwarzbach, Jens ^b   Vorberg, Dirk ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention eye movements; Central visual field loss; Macular degeneration; Oculomotor reference; Preferred retinal location

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCOTOMA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; READING; SACCADES; SCOTOMA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 44649187522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.5.6     Document Type: Article

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