PURPOSE: Visual search plays an integral role in many daily activities. This study aimed to determine whether @entity1 with @entity726 are slower than visually healthy age-matched individuals when searching for items in computer displayed images. METHODS: Forty @entity1 were recruited for the study: 20 @entity1 with a clinical diagnosis of @entity726 and 20 age-similar visually healthy control subjects. All @entity1 had visual acuity of 6/12 or better. @entity1 were presented with 20 images with Landolt C symbols and 15 photographic images of everyday scenes on a computer. The time taken by each @entity1 to locate a specified item in each image was recorded. Average search times were calculated across @entity1 and compared between groups. RESULTS: All the @entity1 had @entity227 in both eyes. On average, the @entity1 also differed from control subjects by binocular contrast sensitivity measurements (p = 0.01) and visual acuity (p = 0.003). The @entity1 (mean age = 67 years, S.D.: 10 years) and controls (mean age: 67 years, S.D.: 11 years) were age similar (p = 0.40). The median search time for @entity1 finding target items in photographs of everyday scenes was 15.2 s (interquartile range 9.4-20.6 s) and this was significantly slower than the median time (10.0 s; interquartile range 7.2-10.3 s) taken by the controls (p = 0.007). There was no statistical evidence for a difference in median search times between groups in the Landolt C search task (p = 0.24). CONCLUSION: Some individuals with @entity227 in both eyes find it especially difficult to locate objects in photographs of everyday scenes when compared to visually healthy individuals of a similar age.

An exploratory study of visual search performance in XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'patients', 'participant', 'Participants'] @entity227 :: ('MESH:D014786', 'Disease') :: ['visual field defects', 'glaucomatous visual field defects'] @entity726 :: ('MESH:D005901', 'Disease') :: ['glaucoma']
@entity726 :: (MESH:D005901,Disease) :: ['glaucoma']
