The contrast dependence of the cortical fMRI deficit in amblyopia; a selective loss at higher contrasts

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1233-1248

  Hess, Robert F ^a   Li, Xingfeng ^a,b   Lu, Guangming ^c   Thompson, Benjamin ^a,d   Hansen, Bruce C ^a,e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e 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

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955067699     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20931     Document Type: Article

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