An ultraviolet absorbing pigment causes a narrow-band violet receptor and a single-peaked green receptor in the eye of the butterfly Papilio.

abstract：:Scotopic background stimulation can elevate photopic increment thresholds by more than 2 log units. This cone-rod interaction is greatest on small backgrounds (less than 1 degree diameter), but is found consistently on large backgrounds as well. Interaction develops and disappears quickly as backgrounds are turned on ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Buck SL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously proposed a model for detecting local image velocity on the magnocellular visual pathway (Kawakami & Okamoto (1996) Vision Research, 36, 117-147). The model detects visual motion in two stages using the hierarchical network that includes component and pattern cells in area MT. To validate the model, we pr...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Okamoto H,Kawakami S,Saito H,Hida E,Odajima K,Tamanoi D,Ohno H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past years, knowledge has expanded with regards to the multiple roles played by erythropoietin (EPO) in the body. Once believed to be a hormone synthesised in the kidney and involved only in the modulation of erythrocyte production, it is recognised now that EPO can be produced in many tissues, including the ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Reid G,Lois N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primate eyes display considerable oblique off-axis astigmatism which could provide information on the sign of defocus that is needed for emmetropization. The pattern of peripheral astigmatism is not known in the chicken eye, a common model of myopia. Peripheral astigmatism was mapped out over the horizontal visual fie...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Maier FM,Howland HC,Ohlendorf A,Wahl S,Schaeffel F

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of optical correction on best-corrected grating acuity (vertical (V), horizontal (H), oblique (O)), vernier acuity (V, H, O), contrast sensitivity (1.5, 6.0, and 18.0 cy/deg spatial frequency, V and H), and stereoacuity were evaluated prospectively in 4- to 13-year-old astigmats and a non-astigmatic age-matche...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Harvey EM,Dobson V,Miller JM,Clifford-Donaldson CE

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:The critical durations for temporal integration at threshold were obtained for lights of various wavelengths, presented both against darkness and against achromatic or chromatic backgrounds of different luminances. The critical duration (tc) was defined by a point of intersection of the two lines with the slopes of ze...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Mitsuboshi M,Kawabata Y,Aiba TS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) to stimulation of their receptive field (RF) are modulated by stimuli in the RF surround. This modulation is suppressive when the stimuli in the RF and surround are of similar orientation, but less suppressive or facilitatory when they are cross-oriented. Similarl...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nurminen L,Angelucci A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the use of the simple motor reaction time (RT), we examined the contribution of the hemiretinas to the timing of the pattern reversal visual evoked potential (PVEP). RTs were obtained to the reversal of a progressively dimmer check falling either on the central, nasal, temporal, superior or inferior retina. Resul...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： McKerral M,Roy MS,Benoit J,Leporé F,Lachapelle P

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dysfunction of dopaminergic retinal neurons is thought to occur in Parkinson's disease, manifesting itself in impaired performance on various visual discrimination tasks. We have investigated whether differences in colour discrimination could readily be detected between a normal group and a Parkinsonian group, using...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Regan BC,Freudenthaler N,Kolle R,Mollon JD,Paulus W

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thresholds for detecting brief, white, foveal test flashes drop abruptly within 0.2 sec of the offset of a white adapting field. The magnitude of the abrupt drop is proportional to the square root of field intensity (square root of I) correct for bleaching and dark light. Thresholds are then stable out to 1.6 sec for ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Reeves A,Wu S,Schirillo J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of endothelial nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity (eNOS-IR) was investigated in the retinas of all phylogenetic vertebrate classes by using a monoclonal eNOS antibody. Confocal light microscopy showed immunoreactive labeling in Müller cells of fish, frog, salamander, turtle, chicken, rat, ground s...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Haverkamp S,Kolb H,Cuenca N

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During dark adaptation after full field, greater than or equal to 90% bleaches recovery of sensitivity and regeneration of rhodopsin were studied using electroretinographic and pupillographic techniques in both 10-week-old infants and adults. The courses of scotopic sensitivity recovery and rhodopsin regeneration of i...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Fulton AB,Hansen RM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that schizophrenia is associated with a magnocellular deficit. This would predict a loss of contrast sensitivity at low spatial and/or at high temporal frequencies. We here review research that tested contrast sensitivity in individuals with schizophrenia. We find that the results of this researc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Skottun BC,Skoyles JR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of objects improves with training, but task performance also improves between sessions without further training. This offline learning seems to be influenced by post-training sleep, as is evidenced in perceptual learning studies with simple stimuli. In this study we aim to investigate the role of sleep in ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Baeck A,Rentmeesters N,Holtackers S,Op de Beeck HP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although color-opponent neurons appear to subserve color vision, precisely how these cells encode hue is still not clear. Single-unit, extracellular recordings from the rainbow trout optic tectum were made in order to examine the possible role of action potential timing in coding chromatic stimuli. We found that color...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： McDonald CG,Hawryshyn CW

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A generally accepted notion in binocular vision is that we see the world as if viewed by a single eye, the cyclopean eye. A consequence of seeing the world from a single point in space is that the outlines of occluding and occluded surfaces have the same shape. We designed stereograms in which subjects aligned binocul...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Erkelens CJ,Muijs AJ,van Ee R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual information is an essential guide when interacting with moving objects, yet it can also be deceiving. For instance, motion can induce illusory position shifts, such that a moving ball can seem to have bounced past its true point of contact with the ground. Some evidence suggests illusory motion-induced position...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Marinovic W,Plooy AM,Arnold DH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human visual system computes features of moving objects with high precision despite the fact that these features can change or blend into each other in the retinotopic image. Very little is known about how the human brain accomplishes this complex feat. Using a Ternus-Pikler display, introduced by Gestalt psycholo...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Oğmen H,Otto TU,Herzog MH

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does the visual system represent the ensemble statistics of visual objects? This question has received intense interest in vision research, yet most studies have focused on the extraction of mean statistics rather than its dispersion. This study focuses on another aspect of ensemble statistics: the redundancy of t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Won BY,Jiang YV

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared reading speed with two fonts, Dutch (serif) and Swiss (sans serif). Text was displayed on a computer monitor, white letters on black, with the RSVP method. Luminance of the letters was either 146.0 or 0.146 cd m-2. Lower-case x-height of the fonts was approximately 5.5 times as large as letter acuity. At t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Yager D,Aquilante K,Plass R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined variation in the visual system both within and among seven species of darters, colorful freshwater fishes of the genus Etheostoma. Using microspectrophotometry, we found that darters possess rod photoreceptor cells, single cone photoreceptor cells containing middle wavelength sensitive (MWS) visual pigment...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gumm JM,Loew ER,Mendelson TC

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The modern study of perception began when Fechner published his 'Elements of Psychophysics' in 1860. This book has guided most perception research ever since. It has become increasingly clear that there are problems with Fechner's approach, which assumes that the percept is completely determined by the sensory input. ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pizlo Z

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual localization during saccadic eye movements is prone to error. Flashes shortly before and after the onset of saccades are usually perceived to shift towards the saccade target, creating a "compression" pattern. Typically, the saccade landing point coincides with a salient saccade target. We investigated whether ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Luo G,Garaas T,Pomplun M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the contribution of high spatial frequency channels (i.e. local, edge-dependent mechanisms) to the grating induction effect, grating induction magnitude was measured as a function of systematic amounts of blurring of the inducing/test field boundary for four test field heights which spanned a two oc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： McCourt ME,Blakeslee B

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that the Rb protein is important for the regulation of retinal progenitor cell proliferation and rod photoreceptor development in the mouse retina. These two functions are separate for Rb and in this study we further characterize the role of Rb in retinal development. At postnatal day 12 in the retin...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Donovan SL,Dyer MA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectral sensitivity was measured in freely moving, light adapted goldfish using a behavioral training technique. The curve reveals 3 pronounced maxima at 470, 540 and 660 nm. Compared with the absorption spectra of the cone photopigments with lambda max at 450, 530 and 625 nm, the maxima were much narrower and shifte...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Neumeyer C

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lenses from 27 human eyes ranging in age from 10 to 87 years were used to determine how accommodation and age affect the optical properties of the lens. A scanning laser technique was used to measure focal length and spherical aberration of the lenses, while the lenses were subjected to stretching forces applied throu...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Glasser A,Campbell MC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When an observer moves through the world, the motions of images on the retina provide information about the direction of observer motion, or "heading", and about the relative distance to surfaces in the scene. While it is simple to compute these quantities when the observer moves in a straight line, the computation be...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Royden CS,Picone LJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies indicate that postural stability under binocular viewing is not better than under monocular viewing. This was tested at the distances of 145 cm [Fox, C.R. (1990). Some visual influences on human postural equilibrium: binocular versus monocular fixation. Perception and Psychophysics, 47 (5), 409-422] and ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Lê TT,Kapoula Z

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00