The dependence of binocular contrast sensitivities on binocular single vision in normal and amblyopic human subjects

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 540, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 607-622

  Hood, A S ^a   Morrison, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; GRATING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MEASUREMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; RETINA FOVEA; SIMULATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STRABISMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; AMBLYOPIA; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037092236     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2001.013420     Document Type: Article

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