Identification of contrast-defined letters benefits from perceptual learning in adults with amblyopia

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 3853-3861

  Chung, Susana T L ^a   Li, Roger W ^b   Levi, Dennis M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Letter recognition; Perceptual learning; Second order

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LUMINANCE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STRABISMUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33748578633     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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