Data Type Details: Vision-Color-Tonography

Details Pertaining to Vision-Color-Tonography

Principal Investigator: James Fozard
Collaborating Investigators: Neil Gittings, Nathan Shock, Sheila West.
Year First Collected: 1958
Year Last Collected: 1992
Frequency of Collection: Alternate visits before 1974, every visit thereafter
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(none) Descriptive History:

Gittings NG, Fozard JL. Age related changes in visual acuity. Exp. Geront. 1986; 21:423-433.
Gittings NG, Fozard JL, Shock NW.Age changes in steropsis, visual acuity and color vision. Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington DC, November, 1987.
Fozard JL Vision and hearing in aging. In JE Birren and KW Schaie (eds) Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (3rd edit.). New York: Academic Press, 1990, chapter 9, pp.150-170. This chapter contains a description of much of the data reported by Gittings et al (1997) on steropsis and color vision.
McLeod SD, West SK, Quigley HA, Fozard JL. A longitudinal study of the relationship between intraocular pressure and blood pressures. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 1990;31: 2351-2356.

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