Enhanced text spacing improves reading performance in individuals with macular disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Blackmore Wright, Sally ^a   Georgeson, Mark A ^a   Anderson, Stephen J ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANIBIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CROWDING (VISION); ERROR; EXUDATIVE MACULAR DEGENERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCULAR VISION; READING; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; TEXT MESSAGING; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; READING;

EID: 84893162875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080325     Document Type: Article

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