Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Vision"
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10 Days of Darkness Does Not Restore Neural or Visual Plasticity in Adult Cats
(2014-12-11)Recently it was demonstrated that 10-days of darkness could restore visual plasticity and promote fast and complete recovery from amblyopia in juvenile kittens (Duffy and Mitchell, 2013). To test whether 10-days of darkness ... -
Are there anisotropies in covert and overt visual orienting?
(2010-09-01)Two recent studies suggest that Inhibition of Return (IOR) varies in magnitude as a function of target location for overt orienting tasks but not covert orienting tasks. Unfortunately, methodological differences between ... -
Latent Impact of Abnormal Visual Experience: Early Abnormal Vision Influences Impact of Subsequent Monocular Deprivation
(2024-02-19)In vision research, monocular deprivation (MD) achieved through eyelid closure is used as a method to replicate the impact of amblyopia in humans and is commonly employed to explore visual system plasticity. Following a ... -
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEARING AND FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY AMONG OLDER ADULTS AT BASELINE IN THE CANADIAN LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGING
(2021-08-31)Mobility problems, prevalent among older adults, are influenced by numerous factors that are interrelated. The primary purpose was to examine the relationship between hearing, measured by Pure-Tone Audiometry, and mobility, ... -
Word, Image, and Vision: Cardiosensory Sight and Cognition in the Work of the Pearl-poet
(2017-02-02)This thesis examines vision and visuality in the poems of MS. British Library Cotton Nero A.x art. 3 (Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight). These Middle English poems of the late fourteenth century, ...