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Effect of Text Type on Near Work–Induced Contrast Adaptation in Myopic and Emmetropic Young Adults
2013
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
PURPOSE. Contrast adaptation has been speculated to be an error signal for emmetropization. Myopic children exhibit higher contrast adaptation than emmetropic children. This study aimed to determine whether contrast adaptation varies with the type of text viewed by emmetropic and myopic young adults. METHODS Participants Participants were either optometry students or patients of the Singapore Polytechnic Optometry Centre. The research followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by both the
doi:10.1167/iovs.12-11496
pmid:23385798
fatcat:kas65mvkfbba3fk4vzrmnz7upq