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Osaka N, 1980, "Effect of peripheral visual field size upon visual search in children and adults" Perception 9(4) 451 – 455
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Effect of peripheral visual field size upon visual search in children and adults

Naoyuki Osaka

Received 4 January 1980, in revised form 19 March 1980

Abstract. Twenty observers in each of the age groups, three, four, five, and twenty-one years, were asked to identify pictures displayed through five different sizes of peephole. Recognition latency changed as a cube-root power function of aperture area. It was found that latency decreased as age and area increased. However, the exponent of the power function showed little age-related change. Effectiveness of the peripheral visual field size was discussed in terms of magnitude of the exponent.

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