How the Visual Cortex Handles Stimulus Noise: Insights from Amblyopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bankó, Éva M ^a   Körtvélyes, Judit ^a,b   Weiss, Béla ^b   Vidnyánszky, Zoltán ^a,b,c  

^a PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PREDICTION; STIMULUS NOISE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879271718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066583     Document Type: Article

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