Adult visual system plasticity.
The functional area of optometry assumes plasticity of the neurological input to the visual system. This paper reviews the literature which investigates adult visual system plasticity. Literature on development of the visual system, as well as adult central nervous system plasticity, provides additional inferences. A discussion is presented suggesting that there exists a multiplicity of sensitivity periods within the visual system.
Levine
S M
SM
SUNY State College of Optometry, NY 10010.
D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D006801:Humans; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D009482:Neurophysiology; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*