Selectivity as well as sensitivity loss characterizes the cortical spatial frequency deficit in amblyopia

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4054-4069

  Hess, Robert F ^a   Li, Xingfeng ^a   Mansouri, Behzad ^a   Thompson, Benjamin ^b   Hansen, Bruce C ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Contrast sensitivity; Cortex; fMRI; Low spatial frequency; Spatial deficit; Spatial frequency mapping; Tuning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549083089     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20829     Document Type: Article

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