Visual Development - Daw, Nigel W.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
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.
Keywords: Neurosciences; Ophthalmology; Biomedical engineering; Neurosciences; Ophthalmology; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering