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Acknowledgments

This chapter incorporates, with minimal changes, material from the chapters “Critical Periods in Visual System Development” authored by Dr. Mark F. Bear, “The Oculomotor System” by Dr. Robert F. Spencer and Dr. John D. Porter, and “Disorders of Ocular Motility” by Dr. Gregory Cooper and Dr. Robert L. Rodnitzky that appeared in the first edition of this work.

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  1. National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

    J. Fielding Hejtmancik MD, PhD

  2. National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Edmond J. FitzGibbon MD

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    Rafael C. Caruso MD, PhD

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Hejtmancik, J.F., FitzGibbon, E.J., Caruso, R.C. (2008). Vision. In: Conn, P.M. (eds) Neuroscience in Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-455-5_33

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