The neural deficit in strabismic amblyopia: Sampling considerations

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3575-3585

  Demanins, Rita ^a   Wang, Yi Zhong ^b   Hess, Robert F ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Grating acuity; Irregular sampling; Motion discrimination; Neural disarray; Orientation discrimination; Spatial undersampling; Strabismic amblyopia; Undersampling

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRATING; HUMAN; MOTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

AMBLYOPIA; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STRABISMUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0032791846     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00070-X     Document Type: Article

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