Improving residual vision by attentional cueing in patients with brain lesions

Brain Research

Volumn 1097, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 142-148

  Poggel, Dorothe A ^a,b,c   Kasten, Erich ^a   Müller Oehring, Eva M ^a,d   Bunzenthal, Ulrike ^a   Sabel, Bernhard A ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention focus; Conscious perception; Detection threshold; Functional recovery; Vision restoration; Visual field defect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODY; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PERIMETRY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMETRY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746015701     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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