Aging effects on the visually driven part of vergence movements

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1145-1151

  Yang, Qing ^a   Le, Thanh Thuan ^a   Kapoula, Zoi ^a  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING; BINOCULAR VISION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 62649116512     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2474     Document Type: Article

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