Strabismic amblyopes show a bilateral rightward bias in a line bisection task: Evidence for a visual attention deficit

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-294

  Thiel, Aylin ^a,b   Sireteanu, Ruxandra ^a,b,c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Bilateral minineglect; Human amblyopia; Line bisection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ATTENTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRABISMUS; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349096660     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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