Cortical deficits in human amblyopia: Their regional distribution and their relationship to the contrast detection deficit

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1575-1591

  Li, Xingfeng ^a   Dumoulin, Serge O ^a   Mansouri, Behzad ^a   Hess, Robert F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34248350773     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1021     Document Type: Article

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