Development of a training protocol to improve reading performance in peripheral vision

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-45

  Yu, Deyue ^a,b   Legge, Gordon E ^b   Park, Heejung ^b,c   Gage, Emily ^b   Chung, Susana T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptual learning; Peripheral vision; Reading speed; Visual span; Visual training

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71549169585     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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