Reading speed in the peripheral visual field of older adults: Does it benefit from perceptual learning?

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 860-869

  Yu, Deyue ^a,b   Cheung, Sing Hang ^a,c   Legge, Gordon E ^a   Chung, Susana T L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aging; Letter recognition; Low vision; Perceptual learning; Peripheral vision; Reading; Visual rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; REHABILITATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL REHABILITATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77950299135     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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