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Nature Neuroscience  6, 915 - 916 (2003)
Published online: 24 August 2003; | doi:10.1038/nn1102

Long-term deprivation affects visual perception and cortex

Ione Fine1, Alex R Wade2, Alyssa A Brewer3, Michael G May5, Daniel F Goodman6, Geoffrey M Boynton7, Brian A Wandell3, 4 & Donald I A MacLeod1

1  Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.

2  Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, 2318 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, California 94115, USA.

3  Stanford University Department of Neuroscience, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

4  Stanford University Department of Psychology, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

5  Sendero Group, LLC, 175 Mason Circle, Concord, California 94520, USA.

6  California Pacific Medical Center, 1199 Bush Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, California 94109, USA.

7  The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California, 93037, USA.

Correspondence should be addressed to Ione Fine fine@salk.edu
Recovery after long-term blindness was first studied1 in 1793, but few cases have been reported since2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. We combined psychophysical and neuroimaging techniques to characterize the effects of long-term visual deprivation on human cortex.


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