Visual parsing after recovery from blindness

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1484-1491

  Ostrovsky, Yuri ^a   Meyers, Ethan ^a   Ganesh, Suma ^b   Mathur, Umang ^b   Sinha, Pawan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DR SHROFF S CHARITY EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINDNESS; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74549174620     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02471.x     Document Type: Article

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