Overview
- This is a revision of a very popular text originally published 10 years ago. All information has been thoroughly updated
- While the field of visual development remains exciting and important from both the clinical and basic science points of view, no competition to this volume exists
- All aspects of visual development are covered, including organization, development, effects of visual deprivation, mechanisms of visual deprivation, and fundamental questions that researchers will need to answer as the field progresses
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Motion sensitivity and the origins of infantile strabismus
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Ventral and dorsal cortical processing streams
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Development of the Visual System
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Amblyopia and the Effects of Visual Deprivation
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About this book
This book will discuss visual development, leading on to visual deprivation, where the development is disturbed by faults in the optics or motor control of the eye. Visual deprivation is an important and fascinating subject from severalpointsofview:clinical,philosophical,historical,andscienti?c. Many general questions in these areas have been framed over the years in terms of the visual system. This is not surprising, because we are visual animals. If dogs ruled the world, the title of this book would beOlfactoryDevelopment. As it is, vision is our most important sense, and the ?rst that we think of in discussing scienti?c and philosophical questions. A large number of people have personally experienced some form of - sualdeprivation. Anythingthataffectstheimagesontheretinasofyoungch- dren can have lasting effects on the part of the brain that processes visual s- nals. This can occur if one eye is in focus, but the other is not; if vertical lines areinfocus,buthorizontallinesarenot;ifthetwoeyeslookindifferentdir- tions (strabismus); if the lens of one or both eyes is cloudy (cataract); or if the eyeballgrowssomuchthatobjectscannolongerbefocusedontheretina. F- quently these conditions lead to poor vision in one or both eyes as a result of changes that have occurred in the central visual system, even after the images ontheretinasaremadeclearandcoordinated. AftertheGreeks,thisisnamed amblyopia, meaning blunt vision or dull vision. The colloquial term for - blyopia islazyeye. Between 2% and 4% of the population may become - blyopic from visual deprivation. Philosophersbecameinterestedinthesubjectofvisualdeprivationwhen William Molyneux posed his famous question in the late 17th century.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visual Development
Authors: Nigel W. Daw
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30484-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 140 b/w illustrations
Topics: Neurosciences, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering