What limits performance in the amblyopic visual system: Seeing signals in noise with an amblyopic brain

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Levi, Dennis M ^a   Klein, Stanley A ^a   Chen, Inning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Classification images; Linear regression; Psychophysics; Reverse correlation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; BRAIN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 41649086328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.4.1     Document Type: Article

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