Persistence of training-induced visual improvements after occipital stroke.

ABSTRACT: Damage to the primary visual cortex causes homonymous visual impairments that appear to benefit from visual discrimination training. However, whether improvements persist without continued training remains to be determined and was the focus of the present study. After a baseline assessment visit, 20 participants trained twice daily in their blind-field for a minimum of six months (median=155 sessions), using a motion discrimination and integration task. At the end of training, a return study visit was used to assess recovery. Three months later, 14 of the participants returned for a third study visit to assess persistence of recovery. At each study visit, motion discrimination and integration thresholds, Humphrey visual fields, and structural MRI scans were collected. Immediately after tra

SUBMITTER: Willis HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11537328 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature