Effects of induced monocular blur versus anisometropic amblyopia on saccades, reaching, and eye-hand coordination

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4354-4362

  Niechwiej Szwedo, Ewa ^a   Kennedy, Sean A ^a   Colpa, Linda ^a   Chandrakumar, Manokaraananthan ^a   Goltz, Herbert C ^a,b   Wong, Agnes M F ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BLURRED VISION; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REFRACTION ERROR; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TOUCH; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SACCADES; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863731344     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9855     Document Type: Article

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