[HTML][HTML] Rethinking amblyopia 2020

DM Levi - Vision research, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent work has transformed our ideas about the neural mechanisms, behavioral
consequences and effective therapies for amblyopia. Since the 1700′ s, the clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroplasticity in adult human visual cortex

E Castaldi, C Lunghi, MC Morrone - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

Sensory eye dominance: Relationship between eye and brain

TL Ooi, ZJ He - Eye and brain, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Eye dominance refers to the preference to use one eye more than the fellow eye to
accomplish a task. However, the dominant eye revealed can be task dependent especially …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term monocular deprivation reduces inter-ocular suppression of the deprived eye

M Wang, P McGraw, T Ledgeway - Vision Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The adult visual system was traditionally thought to be relatively hard-wired, but recent
studies have challenged this view by demonstrating plasticity following short-term …

[HTML][HTML] Binocular encoding in the damselfly pre-motor target tracking system

JA Supple, D Pinto-Benito, C Khoo, TJ Wardill… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Akin to all damselflies, Calopteryx (family Calopterygidae), commonly known as jewel wings
or demoiselles, possess dichoptic (separated) eyes with overlapping visual fields of view. In …

Dynamics of visual perceptual echoes following short-term visual deprivation

JCB Schwenk, R VanRullen… - Cerebral Cortex …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The visual impulse-response function to random input as measured by EEG is dominated by
the perceptual echo, a reverberation of stimulus information in the alpha range believed to …

[HTML][HTML] Patching and suppression in amblyopia: one mechanism or two?

Y Chen, Z He, Y Mao, H Chen, J Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Purpose To determine if benefits from occlusion therapy are due to decreased suppression
from the fellow eye in children with amblyopia. Methods Ten newly diagnosed amblyopes …

Natural-scene-based steady-state visual evoked potentials reveal effects of short-term monocular deprivation

L Lyu, S He, Y Jiang, SA Engel, M Bao - Neuroscience, 2020 - Elsevier
Ocular dominance plasticity beyond the critical period has been demonstrated in adult
humans in recent investigations of short-term monocular deprivation (MD). To our …

[HTML][HTML] Using psychophysical performance to predict short-term ocular dominance plasticity in human adults

C Steinwurzel, S Animali, GM Cicchini… - Journal of …, 2020 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Binocular rivalry has become an important index of visual performance, both to measure
ocular dominance or its plasticity, and to index bistable perception. We investigated its …

Controlling brain state prior to stimulation of parietal cortex prevents deterioration of sustained attention

G Edwards, F Contò, LK Bucci… - Cerebral Cortex …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sustained attention is a limited resource which declines during daily tasks. Such decay is
exacerbated in clinical and aging populations. Inhibition of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) …