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TRAINING OF PERIPHERAL VISUAL ACUITY
Author(s) -
Saugstad Per,
Lie Ivar
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1964.tb01427.x
Subject(s) - psychology , peripheral , visual acuity , audiology , duration (music) , visual field , peripheral vision , test (biology) , training (meteorology) , object (grammar) , optometry , neuroscience , ophthalmology , artificial intelligence , medicine , computer science , physics , paleontology , biology , acoustics , meteorology
An experiment was performed to investigate whether the duration of exposure and the size of the test objects are factors critical for obtaining a training effect in peripheral visual acuity. Contrary to previous results it is shown that considerable improvement may be obtained even under conditions of flash stimulation, provided that the test object used for training is sufficiently small to be just discriminable. The results are interpreted in terms of shifts in the maximum momentary level of attention from the central to the peripheral area of the visual field.