Vernier acuity is selectively affected in infants and children with cortical visual impairment

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 526-532

  Skoczenski, Ann M ^a   Good, William V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; THEORY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISION TEST; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 4043159892     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001216220400088X     Document Type: Article

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