Short periods of concordant binocular vision prevent the development of deprivation amblyopia

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2458-2466

  Mitchell, Donald E ^a   Kind, Peter C ^b   Sengpiel, Frank ^c   Murphy, Kathryn ^d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cat; Critical period; Monocular deprivation; Plasticity; Vision; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRIVATION AMBLYOPIA; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33646704699     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04755.x     Document Type: Article

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