Selective fovea-related deprived activation in retinotopic and high-order visual cortex of human amblyopes

NeuroImage

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 169-179

  Lerner, Y ^a,b   Hendler, T ^b,c   Malach, R ^a   Harel, M ^a   Leiba, H ^d   Stolovitch, C ^b,c   Pianka, P ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Center periphery; fMRI; Object recognition; Size effect

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33748683343     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.026     Document Type: Article

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