Sensory and cognitive influences on the training-related improvement of reading speed in peripheral vision

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  He, Yingchen ^a   Legge, Gordon E ^a   Yu, Deyue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context gain; Crowding; Peripheral vision; Reading; Visual span

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTEXT GAIN; CROWDING (AREA); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERIPHERAL VISION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; RECOGNITION; SENSATION; VISION; VISUAL SPAN; YOUNG ADULT;

CONTEXT GAIN; CROWDING; PERIPHERAL VISION; READING; VISUAL SPAN;

COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSATION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882609946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.7.15     Document Type: Article

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