Positional loss in strabismic amblyopia: Interrelationship of alignment threshold, bias, spatial scale and eccentricity

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2771-2794

  Demanins, Rita ^a   Hess, Robert F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alignment threshold; Amblyopia; Bias; Contrast sensitivity; Spatial scale; Spatial uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0030247745     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00318-5     Document Type: Article

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