Is the motion system relatively spared in amblyopia? Evidence from cortical evoked responses

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 181-190

  Kubová, Zuzana ^a   Kuba, Miroslav ^a   Juran, Josef ^a   Blakemore, Colin ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Anisometropia; Human; Magnocellular pathway; Motion onset; Motion system; Pattern reversal; Strabismus; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STRABISMUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0029655266     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00055-5     Document Type: Article

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