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. 1981 Apr;20(4):561-4.

Emmetropization: a vision-dependent phenomenon

J Rabin, R C Van Sluyters, R Malach
  • PMID: 7216673

Emmetropization: a vision-dependent phenomenon

J Rabin et al. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1981 Apr.

Abstract

Anomalous visual experience during development has been shown to induce myopia in several species of animals. A retrospective analysis of refractive error among humans subjected to various ocular anomalies that disrupt pattern vision revealed a significant degree of myopia. This result suggests that emmetropization is a vision-dependent phenomenon.

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