Large-scale remapping of visual cortex is absent in adult humans with macular degeneration

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 649-657

  Baseler, Heidi A ^a   Gouws, André ^a   Haak, Koen V ^b   Racey, Christopher ^a   Crossland, Michael D ^c,d   Tufail, Adnan ^c,d   Rubin, Gary S ^c   Cornelissen, Frans W ^b   Morland, Antony B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; STARGARDT DISEASE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79955478587     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2793     Document Type: Article

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