title: Sensory Development: Brief Visual Deprivation Alters Audiovisual Interactions.
abstract: Two recent studies have independently demonstrated that short periods of visual deprivation early in human development can have long-term functional consequences on sensory perception and on the balance between auditory and visual attention.
authors.affiliation: Cerebral Systems Laboratory, Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, and Psychology, University of Western Ontario, SSC 9214, 1151 Richmond Street North, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada. Electronic address: steve.lomber@uwo.ca.
authors.forename: Stephen G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Lomber
authors.affiliation: Cerebral Systems Laboratory, Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, and Psychology, University of Western Ontario, SSC 9214, 1151 Richmond Street North, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada. Electronic address: bbutler9@uwo.ca.
authors.forename: Blake E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Butler
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D012683:Sensory Deprivation; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014796:Visual Perception