Visual Development
Reviews from the First Edition "Nigel Daw has written an outstanding book that provides a much-needed summary and synthesis of the impressive recent advances in the experimental study of disorders of visual development…Professor Daw’s book is unique for its succinct yet thorough coverage of the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Springer US,
2006.
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| Edition: | Second Edition. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Motion sensitivity and the origins of infantile strabismus
- Ventral and dorsal cortical processing streams
- Functional Organization of the Visual System
- Development of the Visual System
- Development of Visual Capabilities
- Anatomical Development of the Visual System
- Development of Receptive Field Properties
- Amblyopia and the Effects of Visual Deprivation
- Modifications to the Visual Input that Lead to Nervous System Changes
- Physiological and Anatomical Changes that Result from Optical and Motor Deficits
- What Is Amblyopia?
- Critical Periods
- Mechanisms of Plasticity
- Concepts of Plasticity
- Mechanisms of Plasticity in the Visual Cortex
- Long-Term Potentiation and Long-Term Depression as Early Steps in Ocular Dominance Plasticity
- Deprivation Myopia and Emmetropization.
