Screen LibraryVisual development /
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| Published: |
Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 245 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781461490586 (hardback) : 9781461490593 (eBook) |
| Index Number: | RC1045 |
| CLC: | R339.14 |
| Call Number: | R339.14/D269/3rd ed. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Functional Organization of the Visual System -- Part I: Development of the Visual System -- Development of Visual Capabilities -- Anatomical Development of the Visual System -- Development of Receptive Field Properties -- Part II: Amblyopia and the Effects of Visual Deprivation -- Modifications to the Visual Input that lead to Nervous System changes -- Known Physiological and Anatomical changes from optical and motor deficits -- What is Amblyopia? -- Critical Periods -- Treatment of Amblyopia -- Part III: Mechanisms of Plasticity -- Concepts of Plasticity -- Mechanisms of Plasticity in the Visual Cortex -- Deprivation Myopia and Emmetropization -- Index. |