title: Effects of nearpoint visual stress on psycholinguistic processing in reading.
abstract: To date, there have been few studies to evaluate directly the relationship between binocular visual stress and reading performance. This study employed the cloze procedure to demonstrate the effects of nearpoint stress on performance and efficiency in reading comprehension. Using 19 third year optometry students as subjects, binocular stress was simulated by -2.00 D lenses. Performance, as determined by the time to complete the task, was significantly reduced (p less than .03), but no significant differences in accuracy scores were measured.
authors.affiliation: School of Optometry, University of Missouri, St. Louis 63121-4499.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Garzia
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Nicholson
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Gaines
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Potts
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D012660:Semantics