After all, if congenitally blind people are able to listen to and then accurately identify the red apple in a basket of Granny Smiths using the same area of the brain as sighted people, why should that area be considered visual?
Gordon adds that music can be considered visual: "What happens when you close your eyes [when listening]?
In addition, oculomotor cues (accommodation and eye convergence) are considered visual distance cues because the muscles from which they derive are part of the visual system.
For age, when only studies with narrow age cohorts were considered, visual inspection of each article's findings showed that there was no pattern in terms of effect direction or size between SES and telomere length in a comparison of middle-aged adults (ages 40 59 years) (16, 21, 38, 45), older adults (ages 60 69 years) (20, 35, 45), and the elderly (ages ≥70 years) (22, 37, 39, 42, 55).
Treatment is recommended only in patients with clinically significant macular edema, which is considered when visual acuity is 20/40 or less [ 7].
Each cluster is considered as a visual word represented by the cluster centre [10] (step 3 in Fig. 2).
Using the caliper measurement on DSA as standard of reference, the technique that is considered most subjective (visual estimation) had the least measurement variability, independent of observer experience.
In the base-case scenario, utility weights for the WSE were assumed to be higher than, or the same as, for the BSE, because visual impairment in the WSE is considered less serious than visual impairment in the BSE.
The central visual acuity is considered to be an important measurement of visual function and is an important indicator of visual outcome in patients with VKH syndrome [2, 5].
