Vision after 53 years of blindness

i-Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 498-507

  Šikl, Radovan ^a   Šimeček, Michal ^a   Porubanová Norquist, Michaela ^a   Bezdíček, Ondřej ^b   Kremláček, Jan ^b   Stodůlka, Pavel ^c   Fine, Ione ^d   Ostrovsky, Yuri ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Gemini Eye Clinic   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Object agnosia; Prosopagnosia; Sight recovery; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886827438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0611     Document Type: Article

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