Recovery of stereopsis through perceptual learning in human adults with abnormal binocular vision

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages

  Ding, Jian ^a,b   Levi, Dennis M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult plasticity; Stereo training; Strabismus amblyopia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; TRAINING;

ADULT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053073664     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105183108     Document Type: Article

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