Magnocellular and parvocellular developmental course in infants during the first year of life

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-233

  Hammarrenger, Benoit ^a,b   Leporé, Franco ^a   Lippé, Sarah ^a,b   Labrosse, Mélanie ^a   Guillemot, Jean Paul ^a,c   Roy, Marie Sylvie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Infant vision; Magnocellular pathway; Parvocellular pathway; Visual development; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; LIFE; MAGNOCELLULAR SYSTEM; MATURATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM CONDUCTANCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARVOCELLULAR SYSTEM; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0348143462     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DOOP.0000005331.66114.05     Document Type: Article

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