Visual skills

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Visual skills can be divided to into two main categories: visual perceptual motor skills and ocular motor skills. Many of these visual skills are developed post-natally and often involve processing visual (sight) and other sensory input.

Contents 1 Visual perceptual motor skills 2 Ocular motor skills 3 See also 4 Older Notes 5 See also

[edit] Visual perceptual motor skills

Visual perceptual motor skills involve processing and using visual information. These skills also help with planning and guiding eye/body movements.

• visual memory (eg recall visual information in chunks or in spatial/temporal sequence)
• visual spatial (eg mapping locations, direction concepts)
• visual analysis (eg matching, discriminating, identifying)
• visual motor integration (eg hand-eye coordination, visually guided mobility)
• visual auditory integration (eg matching sounds with image or symbol, decoding & encoding auditory to visual information)
• visualization (eg manipulation - can imagine flips & rotations or image, other)

[edit] Ocular motor skills

Ocular motor skills include control of eye movements, fixations (looking at something at specific location in space) and focus.

• eye teaming (vergence - convergence, divergence)
• eye focusing (accommodation)
• eye movements & tracking (saccades & pursuits, eye movements for reading)

[edit] See also

Visual skills are not to be confused with other eye sight and health topics such as: vision, visual acuity, depth perception, color vision, disease, anomalies, conditions, developmental problems

Some eye care professionals assess various visual skills.

• Behavioral optometry
• Optometry
• Visual perception
• Eye movement

[edit] Older Notes

Visual skills help the brain procure information about its surroundings. Visual skills include, but are not limited to, binocular fusion (the ability to form a unified image from the two eyes), accommodative facility (the ability to re-focus rapidly from far to near and back again), and saccadic tracking (the ability to move the eyes rapidly and accurately from one word or phrase to the next).

A person who is "20/20," with excellent visual acuity, can have deficient visual skills, because skills are not closely correlated with acuity^{[citation needed]}.

Current research suggests that good visual skills, which must be learned, correlate with superior academic performance.^{[citation needed]} However, other research shows that myopic (nearsighted) people average higher IQs because they read more Myopia#Education.2C_intelligence.2C_and_IQ

[edit] See also

• Hand-eye coordination
• Vision

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