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ReviewNeural plasticity2019

Visuomotor Behaviour in Amblyopia: Deficits and Compensatory Adaptations.

Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo, Linda Colpa, Agnes M F Wong

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Review in Neural plasticity, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Interventions for improving adherence to amblyopia treatments in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  2. Effects of grating stimulation on vision in individuals with amblyopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2024
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  13. Dynamic Stereopsis Is Abnormal in Treated Anisometropic Amblyopia.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ewa Niechwiej-SzwedoDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5293-5161
Linda ColpaDepartment of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9659-379X
Agnes M F WongDepartment of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Hospital for Sick Children · CAUniversity of Toronto · CAUniversity of Waterloo · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amblyopia is a neurodevelopmental visual disorder arising from decorrelated binocular experience during the critical periods of development. The hallmark of amblyopia is reduced visual acuity and impairment in binocular vision. The consequences of amblyopia on various sensory and perceptual functions have been studied extensively over the past 50 years. Historically, relatively fewer studies examined the impact of amblyopia on visuomotor behaviours; however, research in this area has flourished over the past 10 years. Therefore, the aim of this review paper is to provide a comprehensive review of current knowledge about the effects of amblyopia on eye movements, upper limb reaching and grasping movements, as well as balance and gait. Accumulating evidence indicates that amblyopia is associated with considerable deficits in visuomotor behaviour during amblyopic eye viewing, as well as adaptations in behaviour during binocular and fellow eye viewing in adults and children. Importantly, due to amblyopia heterogeneity, visuomotor development in children and motor skill performance in adults may be significantly influenced by the etiology and clinical features, such as visual acuity and stereoacuity. Studies with larger cohorts of children and adults are needed to disentangle the unique contribution of these clinical characteristics to the development and performance of visuomotor behaviours.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalAmblyopiaAnimalsGaitHumansPsychomotor PerformanceVision, BinocularVisual Acuity

Identifiers

PMID31281344
PMCPMC6590572
OpenAlexW2948907889

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