Assessment of cortical dysfunction in human strabismic amblyopia using magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1723-1738

  Anderson, Stephen J ^a   Holliday, Ian E ^b   Harding, Graham F A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Colour; Human vision; MEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA FOVEA; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033013232     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00259-4     Document Type: Article

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