Faces are among the most important visual stimuli we perceive, informing us not only about
a person's identity, but also about their mood, sex, age and direction of gaze. The ability to …

Purpose To describe the epidemiology and prevalence, rates of progression, difference
between adult and pediatric populations, and therapeutic approaches to pediatric …

Contrasting the impact of congenital versus late-onset acquired blindness provides a unique
model to probe how experience at different developmental periods shapes the functional …

Congenital prosopagnosia refers to the deficit in face processing that is apparent from early
childhood in the absence of any underlying neurological basis and in the presence of intact …

Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

The objective of this review is to examine and evaluate recent findings on cognitive
functioning (in particular imagery processes) in individuals with congenital visual …

Early visual deprivation can lead to changes in the brain, which may be explained by either
of two hypotheses. The general loss hypothesis has been proposed to explain …

The perceptual consequences of eye movements are manifold: Each large saccade is
accompanied by a drop of sensitivity to luminance-contrast, low-frequency stimuli, impacting …

We review recent advances in the understanding of the mechanisms of change that underlie
cognitive development. We begin by describing error-driven, self-organizing and …

Is visual input during critical periods of development crucial for the emergence of the
fundamental topographical mapping of the visual cortex? And would this structure be …