Human vision with a lesion of the parvocellular pathway: An optic neuritis model for selective contrast sensitivity deficits with severe loss of midget ganglion cell function

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 215, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 293-305

  Al Hashmi, Amal M ^a   Kramer, Daniel J ^a   Mullen, Kathy T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color vision; Contrast sensitivity; L M cone opponency; LGN; Magnocellular; Optic neuritis; Parvocellular; Retina; Spatial frequency; Temporal frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GANGLION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDGET GANGLION CELL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE TRACT; OPTIC NEURITIS; PARVOCELLULAR PATHWAY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OPTIC NEURITIS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISION, LOW; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 82655187433     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2896-4     Document Type: Article

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