APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Effect of Ordered Difficulty on Visual Search Performance Among Myopes and Non-Myopes

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Cognitive

  • Justin Durham
    University of Central Oklahoma
  • Kassandra Cain
    University of Central Oklahoma
  • Theodore Mofle
    University of Central Oklahoma
  • Cris Kilburn
    University of Central Oklahoma
  • Mickie Vanhoy
    University of Central Oklahoma

Abstract

Myopia is a visual impairment, a refractive error; it produces a different cost-benefit environment for visually-directed behavior compared to those without myopia. Myopia blurs faraway images but could it benefit smaller-scale visual tasks? If so, myopic participants may be faster and more accurate than controls at categorizing faces at distances

Individual Differences

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