Improvement of residual vision by visuo-spatial cueing in patients with homonymous visual field loss

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Psychologie

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 119-131

  Poggel, Dorothe A ^a,b,c   Kasten, Erich ^a   Müller Oehring, Eva M ^a,d   Bunzenthal, Ulrike ^a   Sabel, Bernhard A ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Infarction; Recovery of function; Spatial attention; Visual field training

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013595478     PISSN: 09405569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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