Developmental disorders of vision
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A Method to Quantify Visual Information Processing in Children Using Eye Tracking
Published on: July 9, 2016
Albert M Galaburda1, Bradley C Duchaine
1Division of Behavioral Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. agalabur@caregroup.harvard.edu
Abstract:
This review of developmental disorders of vision focuses on only a few of the many disorders that disrupt visual development. Given the enormity of the human visual system in the primate brain and complexity of visual development, however, there are likely hundreds or thousands of types of disorders affecting high-level vision. The rapid progress seen in developmental dyslexia and WMS demonstrates the possibilities and difficulties inherent in researching such disorders, and the authors hope that similar progress will be made for congenital prosopagnosia and other disorders in the near future.
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