Psychology Wiki
Advertisement

Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language | Individual differences | Personality | Philosophy | Social |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |

Cognitive Psychology: Attention · Decision making · Learning · Judgement · Memory · Motivation · Perception · Reasoning · Thinking  - Cognitive processes Cognition - Outline Index


Amplitude of accommodation (AA) is a measurement of the eye’s ability to focus clearly on objects at near distances (i.e. accommodation). This eye focusing range for a child is usually about 5–7.5 cm (2–3 inches). For a young adult, it is 10–15 cm (4–6 inches). The focus range for a 45-year-old adult is about 50 cm (20 inches). For an 80-year-old adult, it is 1.5 m (60 inches). [1]

The average amplitude of accommodation, in diopters, for a patient of a given age may be estimated by Hofstetter's formula: 18.5 minus one third of the patient's age in years.[1]

See also[]

References[]

  1. Scheiman, Mitchell and Wick, Bruce. Clinical Management of Binocular Vision. Lippincott, New York. 1994.

External link[]

This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).
Advertisement