Training peripheral vision to read

Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 209-226

  Legge, Gordon E ^a   Cheung, Sing Hang ^a   Chung, Susana T L ^a   Lee, Hye Won ^a   Gefroh, Joshua ^a   Kwon, Miyoung ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809976     Document Type: Chapter

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