Binocular coordination during reading of blurred and nonblurred text

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 9416-9424

  Jainta, Stephanie ^a   Dehnert, Anne ^b   Heinrich, Sven P ^b   Jaschinski, Wolfgang ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BLURRED VISION; CALIBRATION; COMPREHENSION; COORDINATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; READING; SACCADES; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856359724     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8237     Document Type: Article

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