abstract：:The geometry of the cortex and nucleus of excised human lenses was determined by photography and dissection. Samples of the cortex and nucleus were measured spectrophotometrically to allow determination of light loss through the whole lens and the light loss per unit pathlength. It was concluded that the reduction of ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Mellerio J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microspectrophotometry (MSP) shows rhodopsin highly concentrated (about 3.0 mmol/l) in rod outer segments (ROS). Calculation of the in vivo absorption spectrum of human rhodopsin from such data reveals a striking failure to agree with the action spectrum of human rod vision. Agreement is good between the spectral dist...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Alpern M,Fulton AB,Baker BN

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological and behavioral evidence shows that the directionally preponderant subcortical control of optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) in lower mammals is supplemented in higher mammals by bidirectional cortical control. It is hypothesized that this cortical control allows higher mammals to cope with the parallactic movem...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Howard IP,Gonzalez EG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though there are many more cycles of the "optimal" grating extending across the receptive fields of cells in V3A than of cells in V1 and V2, the spatial frequency bandwidths in V3A are no narrower than in V1 or V2. Thus, the inputs to V3A cells are not combined in a phase coherent manner across the entire recepti...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gaska JP,Jacobson LD,Pollen DA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two protanopes, two deuteranopes, and two normal subjects named 424 OSA Uniform Color Scales samples using single-word color terms of their choice under three different experimental conditions. When viewing a stimulus field subtending about 4 deg, the performance of the dichromats revealed a substantial ability to dis...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Montag ED,Boynton RM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychophysical measures of hue (wavelength) discrimination and spectral sensitivity were collected over a 3-year-period on a rhesus monkey whose right eye had been exposed to intense blue light 10 years prior and had shown a pronounced loss of blue sensitivity in an increment-threshold, spectral-sensitivity task. Hue ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wright AA,Sperling HG,Mills SL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally held that protanopes and deuteranopes see only regions of blues and yellows in the visible spectrum, with an achromatic point, called the neutral point, separating these regions. Considerations of a zone model of color vision for the dichromatic observer led us to predict that a reduced form of red/gre...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Cicerone CM,Nagy AL,Nerger JL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two uncorrelated random dot patterns were superimposed and alternated to produce dynamic incoherent noise. When a low spatial frequency sine wave grating was optically superimposed on this noise and moved in step with the alternation of the two frames, the incoherent motion was masked and all the dots were seen to adh...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ramachandran VS,Cavanagh P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-wave of the ERG and the standing potential of the eye both undergo increases in amplitude following intravenous infusions of sodium azide (NaN3), as first shown by Noell [Am. J. Physiol. 170, 217-238 (1952); U.S.A.F. School of Aviation Medicine, Project No. 21-1201-0004 (1953)]. We have studied the mechanism of ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Linsenmeier RA,Steinberg RH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The color vision of five saddle-backed tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis) was studied. Behavioral tests of color discrimination and spectral sensitivity indicate that this species has a color vision polymorphism. Individual monkeys have either dichromatic or trichromatic color vision. Measurements of the spectral sensiti...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Jacobs GH,Neitz J,Crognale M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the identification and structural characterization of several visual pigments has come a new era of investigation. The above comparisons of amino acids sequences predict specific functional domains that may be tested to tell us how visual pigments function to absorb light and transform this "signal" to trigger a ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Applebury ML,Hargrave PA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and decay characteristics of the tilt aftereffect were studied for aftereffects induced by normal or continuous adaptation routines, and for aftereffects induced by successive or spaced adaptation to the same or different orientations on an adapt-partial decay-readapt schedule. In the continuous adaptation cond...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Magnussen S,Johnsen T

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:This paper discusses a number of points that arise in the visual interpretation of optic flow fields. Particular attention is given to the case in which a flow field is visually ambiguous, and the paper concludes with a detailed description of the case of the moving plane. ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Longuet-Higgins HC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to complement previous studies of contrast detection, we have examined the effects of three stimulus variables (spatial frequency, retinal illuminance, retinal locus) and one visual disorder (amblyopia) on contrast discrimination. Although each factor has a profound effect on the detection of gratings on othe...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bradley A,Ohzawa I

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of monocular deprivation (MD) on the crossed and uncrossed visual projections were studied using both electrophysiological and behavioural criteria. Our results show that Visual Evoked Potentials (VEPs) from the deprived eye (DE) in response to contrast reversing gratings are more reduced in the ipsilatera...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bisti S,Carmignoto G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial vision of two adult galagos (Galago crassicaudatus) was assessed using a two choice discrimination task to determine their contrast sensitivity. Both contrast sensitivity functions exhibited low and high spatial frequency attenuation with the peak sensitivity at 1%. For one animal, the peak occurred at 0.5...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Langston A,Casagrande VA,Fox R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-month-old human infant is known to be less visually sensitive than the adult by a factor of 50, if sensitivity is measured by the threshold for detecting a test light in the dark. In the present experiment, visual sensitivity of infants and adults did not differ significantly when sensitivity was measured by the...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Brown AM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique, involving the projection of low power laser beams through excised lenses in solution, that makes it possible to measure photographically lens optical aberrations. Preliminary work indicates that the laser method can be used in combination with lens culture experiments as a means of monitoring ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Sivak JG,Gershon D,Dovrat A,Weerheim J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abilities of the human visual system to perform metrical judgements (comparison of lengths, estimation of angles...) involve the existence of some geometrical structure in the visual perceptual space. The question arises whether this geometrical structure is rigidly determined or is subject to adaptive changes. We...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Droulez J,Cornilleau V

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady-state, monocular, accommodation response to sinusoidal grating targets (spatial frequencies 0.67, 2.0, 6.0 and 18 c/deg) at effective distances between 0.2 and 1.0 m was measured with a laser optometer, as a function of the grating modulation. In general, only a rather weak dependence of the response on mod...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Tucker J,Charman WN,Ward PA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vernier thresholds were measured behaviourally in five cats using offsets in gratings of two spatial frequencies and in single lines. Thresholds ranged from 2.2 to 6.7', and no threshold differences were found across stimuli. These results are discussed in relationships with published spatial resolution data and are r...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Belleville S,Wilkinson F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Experiment 1 we investigated the independent and combined effects of horizontal OKN of stationary edges and occlusion of the central retina. For a display 60 degrees wide moving at 30 degrees/sec a symmetrically placed pair of vertical nonoccluding bars suppressed OKN when near the center of the display but had no ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Murasugi CM,Howard IP,Ohmi M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of X- and Y-cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat to small, temporally modulated displacements of grating stimuli was measured at 0.175, 0.25, 0.50, 1.00, and 2.00 c/deg. For every cell, two threshold measures were determined: first, a contrast threshold with a counterphase grating ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Moss CF,Lehmkuhle S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the neural generator producing an evoked potential in response to the brief presentation of a vernier offset was investigated in three experiments. In the first study, averaged evoked potentials (EPs) recorded in response to a single vernier offset stimulus consisting of a horizontal line which ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Zak R,Berkley MA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A counterphase-modulated (i.e. contrast reversing) pattern will affect hypothetical neural elements sensitive to motion as well as hypothetical elements sensitive to changes in contrast and other elements sensitive to local luminance. Attempts to describe visual evoked potentials (VEPs) to contrast reversal entirely i...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Spekreijse H,Dagnelie G,Maier J,Regan D

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative light microscopic techniques have been applied to photoreceptors, ganglion cells and dopaminergic amacrine cells in the retina of the North American opossum Didelphis virginiana. This marsupial has a retina with a central areal specialization where ganglion cells reach a maximum density of 2900/mm2 and co...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kolb H,Wang HH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used DOG stimuli to selectively stimulate size tuned channels within the visual system in order to investigate the relationship between stereo and vernier acuity. We measured these acuities as a function of spatial frequency, retinal eccentricity and distance from the fixation point in depth. Both hyperacuitie...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Schor CM,Badcock DR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion aftereffects (MAE) to drifting gratings were measured with a cancellation technique. For a constant adapting grating, MAE cancellation velocity increased linearly with visual field eccentricity. The slope of the function was dependent upon adapting temporal frequency. MAE velocity was independent of spatial fre...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wright MJ,Johnston A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA) of the human eye was determined between wavelengths 458 and 633 nm for ten observers by incorporating Argon and Helium-Neon Lasers into a Badal optometer system such that tonic (or "dark focus") resting positions of accommodation could be measured under darkroom conditions. ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gilmartin B,Hogan RE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Watt RJ,Morgan MJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreceptors of adult and larval zebrafish were assayed by microspectrophotometry to characterize their visual pigments, and to determine when the visual pigments first appear during development. Short single cone outer segments contained a pigment with a lambdamax near 417 nm. Long single cones and long members of ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nawrocki L,BreMiller R,Streisinger G,Kaplan M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On different chromatic adapting fields, thresholds were measured with a 1.2 deg flash consisting of simultaneous incremental and decremental red and green components that stimulate the M and L cones in any desired ratio. Thresholds were plotted in normalized coordinates in which the quantal change in the M and L cones...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Stromeyer CF 3rd,Cole GR,Kronauer RE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:A two-alternative, spatial forced-choice procedure was used to measure contrast thresholds for detection of sinusoidal gratings that appeared within one-dimensional random noise. The orientation of the noise was symmetrically varied relative to the orientation of the test grating to derive estimates of orientation tun...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Blake R,Holopigian K

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:The capacity of 1- and 2-month-old infants to make a tritan discrimination between a 4 degree, 416 nm test field and a 547 nm surround was tested by means of the forced-choice preferential looking technique. Most of the 2-month-olds and the other 1-month-olds made the tritan discrimination and must therefore have func...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Varner D,Cook JE,Schneck ME,McDonald MA,Teller DY

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses to 400 msec flashes of white light were recorded at various depths in the retina of the intact macaque eye. A statistical technique, principal component analysis (PCA), was used to isolate independent components from the LERG, using the changing contribution of a cell's response to the LERG with retinal dept...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Heynen H,van Norren D

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photic responsiveness of cells in the medial bank of the lateral suprasylvian cortex (Clare-Bishop area) was studied using a three-dimensional visual stimulator that reproduced two visual cues (motion disparity and change in size) for perception of three-dimensional motion of a visual stimulus. About one third of them...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Toyama K,Komatsu Y,Kasai H,Fujii K,Umetani K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00