Late maturation of visual spatial integration in humans. Export

@article{citeulike:4548443, abstract = {Visual development is thought to be completed at an early age. We suggest that the maturation of the visual brain is not homogeneous: functions with greater need for early availability, such as visuomotor control, mature earlier, and the development of other visual functions may extend well into childhood. We found significant improvement in children between 5 and 14 years in visual spatial integration by using a contour-detection task. The data show that long-range spatial interactions-subserving the integration of orientational information across the visual field-span a shorter spatial range in children than in adults. Performance in the task improves in a cue-specific manner with practice, which indicates the participation of fairly low-level perceptual mechanisms. We interpret our findings in terms of a protracted development of ventral visual-stream function in humans.}, author = {Kov\'{a}cs, I. and Kozma, P. and Feh\'{e}r, A. and Benedek, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {4548443}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10518600}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=10518600}, day = {12}, issn = {0027-8424}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, keywords = {contour-integration, development, vision}, month = {October}, number = {21}, pages = {12204--12209}, posted-at = {2009-05-20 02:25:39}, priority = {4}, title = {Late maturation of visual spatial integration in humans.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10518600}, volume = {96}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4548443 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4548443 N2 - Visual development is thought to be completed at an early age. We suggest that the maturation of the visual brain is not homogeneous: functions with greater need for early availability, such as visuomotor control, mature earlier, and the development of other visual functions may extend well into childhood. We found significant improvement in children between 5 and 14 years in visual spatial integration by using a contour-detection task. The data show that long-range spatial interactions-subserving the integration of orientational information across the visual field-span a shorter spatial range in children than in adults. Performance in the task improves in a cue-specific manner with practice, which indicates the participation of fairly low-level perceptual mechanisms. We interpret our findings in terms of a protracted development of ventral visual-stream function in humans. IS - 21 JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America SN - 0027-8424 EP - 12209 TI - Late maturation of visual spatial integration in humans. VL - 96 SP - 12204 KW - contour-integration KW - development KW - vision AU - Kovács, I AU - Kozma, P AU - Fehér, A AU - Benedek, G PY - 1999/10/12/ UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10518600 ER -