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preferred retinal locus: a standalone construct

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Low vision

the area of functioning peripheral retina a person with a central scotoma comes to use in place of the fovea for fixation.

In low vision, preferred retinal locus refers to the area of functioning peripheral retina a person with a central scotoma comes to use in place of the fovea for fixation. This meaning comes from Fletcher (1997) in Ophthalmology.[1]

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References

Fletcher, D. C., & Schuchard, R. A. (1997). Preferred Retinal Loci Relationship to Macular Scotomas in a Low-vision Population. Ophthalmology, 104(4), 632-638. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0161-6420(97)30260-7

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