Saccadic eye movements during reading were examined as a function of the side of visual field cut and the impairment of visual contrast sensitivity. Five patients with various visual field defects were compared to five age-matched controls. Patients with right visual field defect showed an increase in the number of rightward saccades and a decrease in their amplitude, and patients with left visual field defects showed a pattern more similar to that of the control subjects, Two patients showed a selective deficit in the range of medium-high spatial frequency; they were the only patients to show a lengthening of mean fixation time during reading. These results indicate selective effects on reading depending on primary sensory defects. The clinical relevance of these findings is briefly discussed.

Eye movement patterns in reading as a function of visual field defects and contrast sensitivity loss / M., De Luca; D., Spinelli; Zoccolotti, Pierluigi. - In: CORTEX. - ISSN 0010-9452. - 32:3(1996), pp. 491-502.

Eye movement patterns in reading as a function of visual field defects and contrast sensitivity loss

ZOCCOLOTTI, Pierluigi
1996

Abstract

Saccadic eye movements during reading were examined as a function of the side of visual field cut and the impairment of visual contrast sensitivity. Five patients with various visual field defects were compared to five age-matched controls. Patients with right visual field defect showed an increase in the number of rightward saccades and a decrease in their amplitude, and patients with left visual field defects showed a pattern more similar to that of the control subjects, Two patients showed a selective deficit in the range of medium-high spatial frequency; they were the only patients to show a lengthening of mean fixation time during reading. These results indicate selective effects on reading depending on primary sensory defects. The clinical relevance of these findings is briefly discussed.
1996
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Eye movement patterns in reading as a function of visual field defects and contrast sensitivity loss / M., De Luca; D., Spinelli; Zoccolotti, Pierluigi. - In: CORTEX. - ISSN 0010-9452. - 32:3(1996), pp. 491-502.
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