The dynamics of practice effects in an optotype acuity task

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 249, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1319-1326

  Heinrich, Sven P ^a   Krüger, Katja ^a   Bach, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feedback; Perceptual learning; Practice; Repetitive testing; Reproducibility; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 85027957294     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1675-z     Document Type: Article

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