Is the perception of brightness different in poor readers?

abstract：:Peripheral resolution acuity for achromatic gratings is known to be limited by the density of the underlying ganglion cell sampling array. After confirming isolation of the short-wavelength sensitive (SWS) system using chromatic adaptation methods, we wished to determine if resolution is limited by blue/yellow ganglio...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Anderson RS,Zlatkova MB,Demirel S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers viewed 200 msec presentations of gratings containing first (0.5 c/deg) and third (1.5 c/deg) harmonic components. The phase of the third harmonic and the absolute position of the grating on the screen varied randomly from trial to trial. Classification of the phase relation (0, 90, 180 or 270 deg was 99% per...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Georgeson MA,Turner RS

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional role of three putative neurotransmitter systems in the visual cortex is compared; the GABAergic inhibitory interneurons, the interneurones containing somatostatin and the cholinergic input originating from the nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM). Evidence is presented to support the role of GABAergic proce...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Sillito AM,Salt TE,Kemp JA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects observed a random dot pattern that moved horizontally with modulated velocity within an invisible aperture. The velocity contrast, (V2-V1)/V1, was 2/3. Two different percepts occurred while observing this stimulus. At lower modulation frequencies, between 2 and 12 Hz, velocity changes were clearly seen; this ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Mateeff S,Hohnsbein J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models based on spatial-frequency channels and local features provide alternative explanations for suprathreshold pattern discrimination. We compared psychophysical discrimination data with the predictions of the Wilson and Gelb channel model and three local-feature models. The features were peak-valley local contrast...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Akutsu H,Legge GE

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human subjects with peripheral retinal detachments, visual deficits are not restricted to the detached retina but are also present in the non-detached tissue. Based upon studies on a rabbit model of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, we propose a glial cell-mediated mechanism of spread of retinal degeneration into ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Francke M,Faude F,Pannicke T,Uckermann O,Weick M,Wolburg H,Wiedemann P,Reichenbach A,Uhlmann S,Bringmann A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial characteristics of the changes in retinal correspondence produced by forced convergence were studied. The vertical extent of lateral shifts in binocular correspondence were quantified by comparing the convergence of the eyes measured with binocular search coils to the convergence of the eyes as determined ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Fogt N,Jones R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an architecture for invariant visual detection and recognition. Learning is performed in a single central module. The architecture makes use of a replica module consisting of copies of retinotopic layers of local features, with a particular design of inputs and outputs, that allows them to be primed either...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Amit Y,Mascaro M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we show that glutamate regulates the viability of cultured retinal cells upon transient glucose deprivation. At low concentrations (10-100 microM) glutamate decreased MTT [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide] reduction to about 50% of control and decreased intracellular ATP leve...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Rego AC,Santos MS,Areias F,Proença T,Oliveira CR

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel type of dynamic random-dot stereogram (DRS) was used to study vergence movements and depth detection in response to temporal modulations of interocular correlation. Each DRS consisted of the repeated presentation of a pair of correlated images alternated by the presentation of a pair of uncorrelated images. Th...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Erkelens CJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to perform a systematic study of the post-four-muscle-tenotomy procedure changes in target acquisition time by comparing predictions from the behavioral ocular motor system (OMS) model and data from infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) patients. We studied five INS patients who underwent only tenotomy at...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wang ZI,Dell'Osso LF

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work (Shimojo, Silverman & Nakayama, 1989; Vision Research, 29, 619-626) suggests that the visual system must discriminate between extrinsic boundaries (boundaries created by front occluding surfaces) and intrinsic boundaries (real object boundaries) in order to recognize objects and that this would importantly...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Vallortigara G,Bressan P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the mechanisms responsible for orientation discrimination of stimuli defined by luminance and red/green isoluminant contrast. A four-alternative forced-choice (4-AFC) paradigm was used to determine thresholds for discriminating 1 cpd sinewave gratings differing in orientation, contrast, or both. When measu...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Reisbeck TE,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effects of colour upon motion detection, the short-range motion displacement limit (Dmax) was determined using two-frame kinematograms in which the two classes of square comprising the pattern differed both in luminance and in colour. In the second motion frame, the squares retained either the same ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Morgan MJ,Cleary R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trout lens external shape and internal refractive index gradient structure were measured and used to construct an optical lens model that predicts by ray tracing the average longitudinal spherical and chromatic aberration, focal length and image quality. The nearly spherical shape of the lens was measured from photogr...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Jagger WS,Sands PJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For rapidly translating targets, vernier thresholds correspond to millisecond asynchronies between targets. The 'temporal hypothesis' is that these thresholds reflect the limiting sensitivity of asynchrony detectors. Previous studies showed that temporal thresholds are generally higher than vernier thresholds, but fai...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Mechler F,Victor JD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanisms of perceptual learning, we recently introduced a paradigm in which incorrect, reverse feedback followed after some but not all vernier presentations. This feedback paradigm exerted a strong effect on performance that seemed to bias decisions rather than to yield perceptual learning. Here,...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Herzog MH,Ewald KR,Hermens F,Fahle M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal viewing position phenomenon discovered by (O'Regan, J. K., Lévy-Schoen, A., Pynte, J., Brugaillère, B. (1984). Convenient fixation location within isolated words of different length and structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and performance. 10 (2), 250-257) is characterized by a m...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Clark JJ,O'Regan JK

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rotating Pulfrich effect is described and analysed in relation to the Fertsch-Pulfrich latency difference theory. Although some of the predictions conflicted with observations described by Pulfrich [Naturwissenschaften 10, 553-564 (1922)], they were confirmed by experiment, and led to a simple and sensitive method o...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nickalls RW

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is characterized by a central vision loss. Here, we investigated the ability of AMD patients to process the spatial frequency content of scenes in their residual vision, depending of the luminance contrast level. AMD patients and normally-sighted elderly participants (controls) p...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Peyrin C,Ramanoël S,Roux-Sibilon A,Chokron S,Hera R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response latency of horizontal cells in the carp retina was investigated by means of the stimulus-response crosscorrelation using a randomly modulated light of various wavelengths. R/G type cells produced two response components with some difference in latency; short-latency hyperpolarising response to green light...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Yamada M,Shigematsu Y,Fuwa M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyes are always moving even during fixation, making the retinal image move concomitantly. While these motions activate early visual stages, they are excluded from one's perception. A striking illusion reported here renders them visible: a static pattern surrounded by a synchronously flickering pattern appears to m...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Murakami I

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of binocular visual direction have concentrated mainly on stationary objects. Eye positions were generally not measured and binocular fixation was assumed to be perfect. During the viewing of stationary objects, vergence errors are not negligible but small. During the viewing of moving objects, however,...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Erkelens CJ,Van EE R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) We studied the influence of photoperiod and unilateral lid suture on post-natal ocular growth in two types of White Leghorn chicks previously reported to respond differently to visual deprivation, Truslow and Cornell K chicks. We analyzed the chicks after 2 weeks of rearing, a time period commonly used in neuropha...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Stone RA,Lin T,Desai D,Capehart C

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines how salience and a center bias drive infants' first fixation while looking at complex scenes. Adults are known to have a strong center bias, their first point of gaze is nearly always in the center of the scene. The center bias is likely to be a strategic bias, as looking towards the center minimiz...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： van Renswoude DR,van den Berg L,Raijmakers MEJ,Visser I

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent neurological studies of selective impairments in first and second-order motion processing are of considerable relevance in elucidating the mechanisms of motion perception in normal human observers. We examine the stimuli which have been used to assess first and second-order motion processing capabilities in cli...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Clifford CW,Vaina LM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the relative orientations of the displacement planes of the two eyes under various conditions: fixations of nearby targets, of far targets and targets presented dichoptically at optical infinity. We show that disparity driven vergence is not always required to rotate the primary positions. We find that ey...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bruno P,van den Berg AV

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance for a variety of visual tasks improves with practice. The purpose of this study was to determine the nature of the processes underlying perceptual learning of identifying letters in peripheral vision. To do so, we tracked changes in contrast thresholds for identifying single letters presented at 10 degrees...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Chung ST,Levi DM,Tjan BS

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various studies indicate the existence of non-Fourier visual mechanisms that can extract non-luminance cues (e.g., contrast modulation) as well as a Fourier mechanism that deals with luminance variation only. We compared the pattern discrimination performance of the non-Fourier mechanism with that of the Fourier mecha...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Lin LM,Wilson HR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the vertebrate retina are interconnected by a complex network of chemical and electrical synapses which make it difficult to study the intrinsic biochemical and biophysical properties of individual cells. During the past decade, enzymatic methods have been developed for dissociating adult retinas into viabl...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Lam DM,Ayoub GS

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00