Aging effects on the identification of digitally blurred text, scenes and faces: Evidence for optical compensation on everyday tasks in the senescent eye

Ageing International

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 56-72

  Bartel, Paul R ^a   Kline, Donald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Blur; Face recognition; Image Processing; Optics; Scene identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937387644     PISSN: 01635158     EISSN: 1936606X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12126-002-1002-4     Document Type: Article

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