Visual requirements for safety and mobility of older drivers

D Shinar, F Schieber - Human factors, 1991 - journals.sagepub.com
Efforts to assess visual deterioration with increasing age, coupled with new mechanisms
proposed to limit the exposure of visually impaired drivers to driving risks, have emerged in …

Visual/cognitive correlates of vehicle accidents in older drivers.

C Owsley, K Ball, ME Sloane, DL Roenker… - Psychology and …, 1991 - psycnet.apa.org
Older drivers have more accidents per miles driven than any other age group and tend to
have significant impairments in their visual function, which could interfere with driving …

Contrast thresholds for identification of numeric characters in direct and eccentric view

H Strasburger, LO Harvey, I Rentschler - Perception & psychophysics, 1991 - Springer
Aubert and Foerster (1857) are frequently cited for having shown that the lower visual acuity
of peripheral vision can be compensated for by increasing stimulus size. This result is …

Face recognition in age-related maculopathy.

MA Bullimore, IL Bailey… - … ophthalmology & visual …, 1991 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Patients with age-related maculopathy (ARM) complain frequently of difficulty with face
recognition. The authors attempted to quantify the level of impairment by comparing face …

Vistech VCTS 6500 charts—within-and between-session reliability

BC Reeves, AR HILL - Optometry and Vision Science, 1991 - journals.lww.com
Abstract colon; The aim of the study was to measure the reliability of the Vistech VCTS 6500
charts, in test score units, in order to allow clinicians to derive estimates of what constitutes a …

Binocular visual impairment in glaucoma

CJ Bassi, JC Galanis - Ophthalmology, 1991 - Elsevier
Monocular and binocular vision was assessed in patients with glaucoma (n= 21), in patients
with ocular hypertension (n= 20), and in agematched visual control subjects (n= 20) using …

Simultaneous form perception and serial letter recognition in a case of letter-by-letter reading

J Kay, R Hanley - Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the performance of a letter-by-letter reader, PD, on tests which involve
the perception of words and letter-strings under tachistoscopic presentation conditions …

A comparison of clinical acuity and contrast sensitivity charts: effect of uncorrected myopia

A Bradley, J Hook, J Haeseker - Ophthalmic and Physiological …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
We have exmained the effect of corrected and uncorrected myopia on visual acuity and
contrast sensitivity using a standard acuity chart and two commercially avilable printed …

Reliability of the Vistech Contrast Test System in a life-span adult sample

CT SCIALFA, EM ADAMS… - Optometry and vision …, 1991 - journals.lww.com
To assess the reliability of the Vis tech Contrast Test System (VCTS), contrast sensitivity
functions (CSF's) were estimated using all forms of the VCTS in 92 subjects aged 20 to 73 …

Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Kontrastempfindlichkeit bei multifokalen Intraokularlinsen

MR Nowak - 4. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für …, 1991 - Springer
Durch das gleichzeitige Vorliegen von zwei Brennweiten bei diffraktiven multifokalen
Intraokularlinsen ist aufgrund theoretischer Überlegungen eine Verminderung der …