Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation.

Abstract:

:To investigate amblyopic contrast vision at threshold and above we performed pedestal-masking (contrast discrimination) experiments with a group of eight strabismic amblyopes using horizontal sinusoidal gratings (mainly 3c/deg) in monocular, binocular and dichoptic configurations balanced across eye (i.e. five conditions). With some exceptions in some observers, the four main results were as follows. (1) For the monocular and dichoptic conditions, sensitivity was less in the amblyopic eye than in the good eye at all mask contrasts. (2) Binocular and monocular dipper functions superimposed in the good eye. (3) Monocular masking functions had a normal dipper shape in the good eye, but facilitation was diminished in the amblyopic eye. (4) A less consistent result was normal facilitation in dichoptic masking when testing the good eye, but a loss of this when testing the amblyopic eye. This pattern of amblyopic results was replicated in a normal observer by placing a neutral density filter in front of one eye. The two-stage model of binocular contrast gain control [Meese, T.S., Georgeson, M.A. & Baker, D.H. (2006). Binocular contrast vision at and above threshold. Journal of Vision 6, 1224-1243.] was 'lesioned' in several ways to assess the form of the amblyopic deficit. The most successful model involves attenuation of signal and an increase in noise in the amblyopic eye, and intact stages of interocular suppression and binocular summation. This implies a behavioural influence from monocular noise in the amblyopic visual system as well as in normal observers with an ND filter over one eye.

journal_name

Vision Res

journal_title

Vision research

authors

Baker DH,Meese TS,Hess RF

doi

10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.017

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-07-01 00:00:00

pages

1625-40

issue

15

eissn

0042-6989

issn

1878-5646

pii

S0042-6989(08)00229-0

journal_volume

48

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Developmental lead exposure selectively alters the scotopic ERG component of dark and light adaptation and increases rod calcium content.

    abstract::Electrophysiological studies have established that lead exposure produces selective rod deficits. The present electroretinographic (ERG) and correlated calcium experiments examined whether low-level or moderate-level developmental lead exposure (peak blood lead of 19 and 59 micrograms/dl, respectively) altered dark ad...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(92)90134-5

    authors: Fox DA,Katz LM

    更新日期:1992-02-01 00:00:00

  • Effect of contrast on the frequency response of synchronous period doubling.

    abstract::At temporal frequencies between approximately 30 and 70 Hz, the flicker electroretinogram (ERG) of the cone system can exhibit an alternation in response amplitude from cycle to cycle that has been termed synchronous period doubling. This phenomenon has been attributed to a nonlinear feedback mechanism at an early ret...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.011

    authors: Alexander KR,Raghuram A

    更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00

  • Binocular eyelid closure promotes anatomical but not behavioral recovery from monocular deprivation.

    abstract::Deprivation of patterned vision of frontal eyed mammals early in postnatal life alters structural and functional attributes of neurones in the central visual pathways, and can produce severe impairments of the vision of the deprived eye that resemble the visual loss observed in human amblyopia. A traditional approach ...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2014.12.012

    authors: Duffy KR,Bukhamseen DH,Smithen MJ,Mitchell DE

    更新日期:2015-09-01 00:00:00

  • A Bayesian model for efficient visual search and recognition.

    abstract::Humans employ interacting bottom-up and top-down processes to significantly speed up search and recognition of particular targets. We describe a new model of attention guidance for efficient and scalable first-stage search and recognition with many objects (117,174 images of 1147 objects were tested, and 40 satellite ...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2010.01.002

    authors: Elazary L,Itti L

    更新日期:2010-06-25 00:00:00

  • Diurnal illumination patterns affect the development of the chick eye.

    abstract::Exposure to continuous illumination disrupts normal ocular development in young chicks, causing severe corneal flattening, shallow anterior chambers and progressive hyperopia ('constant light (CL) effects'). We have studied the minimum requirements of a diurnal light cycle to prevent CL effects. (1) Seven groups of 10...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0042-6989(00)00098-5

    authors: Li T,Howland HC,Troilo D

    更新日期:2000-01-01 00:00:00

  • Oculomotor and skeletal motor systems share one map of visual space.

    abstract::Previous research has shown that cognitive and motor visual systems have separate maps of visual space because spatial values in them can be manipulated independently. Here we ask whether the motor map in turn can be divided into separate representations of space. Forty large saccadic eye movements in darkness resulte...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(87)90088-5

    authors: Nemire K,Bridgeman B

    更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00

  • Adaptation changes directional sensitivity in a visual motion-sensitive neuron of the fly.

    abstract::The blowfly visual system is a well-suited model to investigate the functional consequences of adaptation. Similar to cortical motion-sensitive neurons, fly tangential cells are directional selective and adapt during prolonged stimulation. Here we demonstrate in a tangential cell large changes in directionality after ...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.004

    authors: Kalb J,Egelhaaf M,Kurtz R

    更新日期:2008-07-01 00:00:00

  • Positive colored afterimages from the figure-ground configurations of colored lights: effects of chromaticity, luminance and a spatial parameter of the adapting stimuli.

    abstract::Colored afterimages were obtained after the eye was exposed to the adapting field consisting of the figure-ground configuration of colored lights with the same hue and different saturation. When a colored patch was surrounded by a more saturated field, the color of the afterimage was similar to that of the previous pa...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(88)90174-5

    authors: Takahashi S,Ejima Y,Akita M

    更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00

  • Spatial frequency mechanisms in human vision investigated by evoked potential recording.

    abstract::Two visually evoked brain responses were elicited simultaneously by stimulating the eye with two superimposed sinewave grating patterns that were temporally modulated at slightly different rates. The VEP to one grating was comparatively little affected by the presence of the other grating when the two spatial frequenc...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(83)90151-7

    authors: Regan D

    更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00

  • The recognition of everyday objects changes grasp scaling.

    abstract::Current concepts of action and perception emphasise a dissociation between conscious visual recognition and visual action control. These models do not expect an effect of the recognisable identity of an object on the kinematic parameterisation of grasping movements under binocular viewing conditions without pre-test l...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2012.06.019

    authors: Borchers S,Himmelbach M

    更新日期:2012-08-15 00:00:00

  • A comparison of temporal integration in children with a specific reading disability and normal readers.

    abstract::Previous research has suggested that whereas some techniques show that subjects with a specific reading disability (SRD) have greater visible persistence than controls, a temporal integration of form technique does not. It has been suggested that the failure of the temporal integration task to show a difference result...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(94)00278-t

    authors: Hogben JH,Rodino IS,Clark CD,Pratt C

    更新日期:1995-07-01 00:00:00

  • Orientation, masking, and vernier acuity for line targets.

    abstract::In an attempt to uncover the properties of the psychophysical spatial mechanisms which optimally respond to the vernier offset between two abutting lines, we investigated the effects of one-dimensional band-limited spatial noise masks superimposed with the target, on vernier thresholds. Unidirectional vernier threshol...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90028-u

    authors: Waugh SJ,Levi DM,Carney T

    更新日期:1993-08-01 00:00:00

  • Failure of rivalry at low contrast: evidence of a suprathreshold binocular summation process.

    abstract::Presentation of different images to the two eyes normally results in a time-varying alternation between the two images (binocular rivalry). However, we find that when orthogonal gratings are viewed dichoptically at low contrast, a stable summation between the two images is perceived in the form of a dichoptic plaid. T...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(92)90203-u

    authors: Liu L,Tyler CW,Schor CM

    更新日期:1992-08-01 00:00:00

  • Optic flow and scene structure do not always contribute to the control of human walking.

    abstract::Using displacing prisms to dissociate the influence of optic flow and egocentric direction, previous research (Current Biology 8 (1998) 1191) showed that people primarily use egocentric direction to control their locomotion on foot, rather than optic flow. When wearing displacing prisms, participants followed the curv...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0042-6989(02)00066-4

    authors: Harris JM,Bonas W

    更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00

  • Perception of directional sampled motion in relation to displacement and spatial frequency: evidence for a unitary motion system.

    abstract::Perception of directional motion was studied by displaying two images (F1 and F2) in rapid succession. The two images were identical except for a horizontal displacement of F2 with respect to F1. Observers reported the direction of horizontal motion over a wide range of displacements. The stimuli in Experiment 1 were ...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(90)90008-9

    authors: Bischof WF,Di Lollo V

    更新日期:1990-01-01 00:00:00

  • Effect of image orientation contents on detection efficiency.

    abstract::Contrast detection performance is known to be better for single component sinusoidal gratings than for sums of gratings at different orientations. A recent study Rovamo et al. (1994) (Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 35, 2611-2619) showed that spatial integration is less effective for multiple orientati...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0042-6989(96)00233-7

    authors: Näsänen R,Syväjärvi A,Rovamo J

    更新日期:1997-04-01 00:00:00

  • Binding of (-)[3H]noradrenaline to bovine membrane of the retina. Evidence for the existence of alpha 2-receptors.

    abstract::(-)[3H]Noradrenaline and [3H]clonidine bind in a saturable fashion to membrane preparations of bovine retinas. The dissociation constant for (-)[3H]noradrenaline is about 26 nM and for [3H]clonidine approximately 11.7 nM. The degree of (-)[3H]noradrenaline and [3H]clonidine binding associated with subcellular fraction...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(82)90230-9

    authors: Osborne NN

    更新日期:1982-01-01 00:00:00

  • Motion minima for different directions in color space.

    abstract::We have used the minimum-motion stimulus of Cavanagh, MacLeod & Anstis [(1987) Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4, 1428-1438] to examine how signals along different directions in color space interact in motion perception. Stimuli were pairs of counterphasing gratings combined 90 deg out of phase in both sp...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0042-6989(96)00289-1

    authors: Webster MA,Mollon JD

    更新日期:1997-06-01 00:00:00

  • The integration of straight contours (snakes and ladders): The role of spatial arrangement, spatial frequency and spatial phase.

    abstract::In the present study we addressed the issue of whether the Gestalt principle of grouping by similarity (iso-orientation) subtends extraction of straight contours made up of disconnected, iso-oriented Gabor elements, whether collinear (snakes) or parallel (ladders). To prevent the use of the most obvious grouping princ...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2012.07.021

    authors: Bellacosa Marotti R,Pavan A,Casco C

    更新日期:2012-10-15 00:00:00

  • Selectivity of cyclopean masking for the spatial frequency of binocular disparity modulation.

    abstract::Previous studies have presented evidence for the existence of channels tuned to the spatial frequency (SF) of binocular disparity modulation. Bandwidths reported for masking curves were extremely narrow, possibly because of off-frequency viewing, whereby observers can best detect a signal with a channel tuned to an SF...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(94)90016-7

    authors: Cobo-Lewis AB,Yeh YY

    更新日期:1994-03-01 00:00:00

  • A theory of the primitive spatial code in human vision.

    abstract::MIRAGE, a theory for the primitive coding of the (1D) spatial distribution of luminance changes by the human visual system is developed from a theoretical examination of the practical problems associated with the characterization of such changes. The main novel feature of the theory is that the multiplicity of spatial...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(85)90138-5

    authors: Watt RJ,Morgan MJ

    更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00

  • Similarity-based distortion of visual short-term memory is due to perceptual averaging.

    abstract::A task-irrelevant stimulus can distort recall from visual short-term memory (VSTM). Specifically, reproduction of a task-relevant memory item is biased in the direction of the irrelevant memory item (Huang & Sekuler, 2010a). The present study addresses the hypothesis that such effects reflect the influence of neural a...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2013.12.016

    authors: Dubé C,Zhou F,Kahana MJ,Sekuler R

    更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00

  • Transducer model produces facilitation from opposite-sign flanks.

    abstract::Small spots, lines and Gabor patterns can be easier to detect when they are superimposed upon similar spots, lines and Gabor patterns. Traditionally, such facilitation has been understood to be a consequence of nonlinear contrast transduction. Facilitation has also been reported to arise from non-overlapping patterns ...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0042-6989(98)00143-6

    authors: Solomon JA,Watson AB,Morgan MJ

    更新日期:1999-03-01 00:00:00

  • Three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface reflectance contributions to face recognition: an application of three-dimensional morphing.

    abstract::We measured the three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface reflectance contributions to human recognition of faces across viewpoint. We first divided laser scans of human heads into their two- and three-dimensional components. Next, we created shape-normalized faces by morphing the two-dimensional surface ref...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0042-6989(99)00034-6

    authors: O'Toole AJ,Vetter T,Blanz V

    更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00

  • Interocular transfer of a chromatic frequency shift.

    abstract::Interocular transfer of a spatial frequency shift was obtained with equiluminous color gratings. Gratings which combined both color and luminance contrast yielded small aftereffects and no interocular transfer. Recent electrophysiological work has uncovered color-sensitive binocularly driven cells in visual cortex. Th...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(83)90004-4

    authors: Favreau OE,Cavanagh P

    更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00

  • Saccade target selection: Do distractors affect saccade accuracy?

    abstract::A study is reported in which eye movements were recorded when observers attempted to make a saccade to a target in the presence of a nearby and visually identical distractor. It was found that saccade targeting accuracy was completely unaffected by the presence of the distractor, except in the cases where the distract...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.005

    authors: Findlay JM,Blythe HI

    更新日期:2009-06-01 00:00:00

  • Comparing the retinal structures and functions in two species of gulls (Larus delawarensis and Larus modestus) with significant nocturnal behaviours.

    abstract::Ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) and gray gulls (Larus modestus) are two species active both by day and night. We have investigated the retinal adaptations that allow the diurnal and nocturnal behaviours of these two species. Electroretinograms and histological analyses show that both species have a duplex retin...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.02.023

    authors: Emond MP,McNeil R,Cabana T,Guerra CG,Lachapelle P

    更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00

  • Time course of discrimination between emotional facial expressions: the role of visual saliency.

    abstract::Saccadic and manual responses were used to investigate the speed of discrimination between happy and non-happy facial expressions in two-alternative-forced-choice tasks. The minimum latencies of correct saccadic responses indicated that the earliest time point at which discrimination occurred ranged between 200 and 28...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2011.06.001

    authors: Calvo MG,Nummenmaa L

    更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00

  • Disruption of implicit perceptual memory by intervening neutral stimuli.

    abstract::After viewing directional motion, one is likely to perceive a subsequently presented directionally ambiguous motion as being in the same direction as the prior motion. The perceptual bias towards the most recent percept gradually develops as the interval between the prior stimulus and a subsequent test becomes longer....

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.016

    authors: Kanai R,Knapen TH,van Ee R,Verstraten FA

    更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00

  • A comparison of spatio-temporal receptive fields of ganglion cells in the retinas of the tadpole and adult frog.

    abstract::Receptive fields formed by ganglion cells were measured simultaneously in time and space in the adult and tadpole retinas. The spatio-temporal receptive-fields (STRFs) were measured by cross-correlating the spatio-temporal white-noise stimulus with the cells' spike discharges. Crosscorrelation was made photographicall...

    journal_title:Vision research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0042-6989(83)90003-2

    authors: Shingai R,Hida E,Naka K

    更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00