Visual field recovery after vision restoration therapy (VRT) is independent of eye movements: An eye tracker study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-26

  Kasten, Erich ^a   Bunzenthal, Ulrike ^a   Sabel, Bernhard A ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Eye tracking system; Homonymous hemianopia; Perimetry; Saccades; Vision restoration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; INJURY; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION RESTORATION THERAPY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; PERIMETRY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33750610609     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.07.024     Document Type: Article

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