Psychophysical measures of visual acuity in autism spectrum conditions

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1778-1780

  Tavassoli, Teresa ^a   Latham, Keziah ^b   Bach, Michael ^c   Dakin, Steven C ^d   Baron Cohen, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Freiburg Visual Acuity and Contrast Test; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79960834718     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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