Cerebral correlates of impaired grating perception in individual, psychophysically assessed human amblyopes

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 506-526

  Muckli, Lars ^a,b   Kieß, Stefan ^a   Tonhausen, Nathalie ^a   Singer, Wolf ^a,b   Goebel, Rainer ^a,c   Sireteanu, Ruxandra ^a,d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center Frankfurt   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Extrastriate visual cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Perceptual distortion; Retinotopic mapping

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRATING; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; STRABISMUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 29144442332     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.10.014     Document Type: Article

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