abstract：:Monocular acuity, binocular acuity, and stereopsis were assessed with preferential-looking techniques in a sample of 114 normal infants aged 0-11 months in order to examine developmental trends in: (1) interocular differences in acuity, (2) test-retest reliability, (3) the relationship between monocular and binocular ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Birch EE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Static firing frequencies have been determined in extraocular motoneuronal discharge patterns for different eye positions within +/- 30 deg around the primary position. From these data iso-frequency curves were plotted stating all possible eye positions for a given firing rate. Such curves have been constructed for th...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hepp K,Henn V

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured corneal and total astigmatism on 161 eyes of 90 normal infants and young children aged 2 months to 5 years using the techniques of photorefraction and photokeratometry. Both the mean corneal and mean total astigmatism were found to decrease with increasing age. We found large and significant correlati...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Howland HC,Sayles N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrast threshold for a sinusoidal target in the simultaneous presence of the vertically displaced peripheral gratings was measured as a function of the peripheral contrast and the separation. When the signal and peripheral gratings were in phase, the low-contrast peripheral gratings produced the improvement in signa...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Takahashi S,Ejima Y

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stiles' pi 1 and pi 3 mechanisms are thought to reflect adaptation events at two sites in a single pathway, the first site controlled by the short-wavelength cones alone, the second site controlled by opposing signals from these cones vs the other cone classes. We examined this pathway's temporal integration under con...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Friedman LJ,Yim MH,Pugh EN Jr

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Using a staircase method, the tilt aftereffect (TAE) was measured with test flashes of durations ranging from 10 to 600 msec. The TAE is largest with brief duration test stimuli and reaches an asymptotic value at a test flash duration of 200-300 msec. A series of control experiments rule out a variety of explanations ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wolfe JM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal frequency discrimination was measured above threshold with a two-alternative spatial forced-choice procedure. Stimuli were two 1 deg homogeneous fields modulated around a mean luminance of 3.7 log trolands. Observers determined which of the two stimuli was modulated at a higher frequency. To avoid differences...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Mandler MB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants (14-151 days) and adults were shown two-dimensional geometric forms or stimuli from a set of highly textured patterns. Their eye movements were recorded by an infrared corneal reflection eye movement recorder as they freely scanned the stimuli. For both infants and adults, linear relationships were found betwe...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hainline L,Turkel J,Abramov I,Lemerise E,Harris CM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the manner in which the On and Off systems originating in the retina make their connections with the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the rhesus monkey. 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (APB) was either infused or injected into the vitreous chamber of the eye to block the On channel while the res...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Schiller PH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectral sensitivity of the extracellularly-recorded photoresponse of isolated rods of the tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, was compared to the absorptance spectrum. Both measurements were made with the same optical system on the same portion of each cell to avoid errors that could occur when the two kinds of...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Cornwall MC,MacNichol EF Jr,Fein A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation examined the onset response of the transient visually evoked potential elicited by the appearance-disappearance of sine-wave gratings at various levels of spatial frequency, suprathreshold contrast, and stimulus duration. The response was most easily characterized by two negative-positive complexes ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Reed JL,Marx MS,May JG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanosecond transient spectroscopic measurements of the BATHO products formed from photolysis of bovine rhodopsin (RHO) and isorhodopsin (ISO) are discussed. BATHO absorption spectra of RHO and ISO differ slightly, but both pigments exhibit wavelength maxima near 560 nm. An additional transient absorption at 440 nm is ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kliger DS,Horwitz JS,Lewis JW,Einterz CM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual pigments in the rods do not have a special absorption that gives them maximal sensitivity. The visual pigments of "deep sea" fish are an exception for these do match the environmental light to give maximum sensitivity. At the low light intensities at which the rods operate, it is the number of photons that ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Lythgoe JN

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral measures of spatial summation in 4- and 11-week old human infants were obtained using the forced-choice preferential looking technique. Infants exhibit complete spatial summation over large areas (4 weeks: 8.9 degrees; 11 weeks: 5.5 degrees), much larger than those of adults tested in the same apparatus (2....

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hamer RD,Schneck ME

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binocular sensory fusion which was previously thought to have a maximum spatial extent at the fovea of 1 deg is at least 600% larger when stimulated by low spatial frequency (coarse) detail. This upper limit for sensory fusion has a constant phase disparity limit of 90 deg which corresponds to the monocular Rayleigh c...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Schor C,Wood I,Ogawa J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linking propositions are statements that relate perceptual states to physiological states, and as such are one of the fundamental building blocks of visual science. A brief history of the concept of linking proposition is presented. Five general families of linking propositions--Identity, Similarity, Mutual Exclusivit...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Teller DY

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on the simple reaction time to motion onset presented in Ball and Sekuler [Psychol. Rev. 87, 435-469 (1980)] and Tynan and Sekuler [Vision Res. 20, 709-715 (1982)] are re-analysed on the basis of local dispersion model of motion detectability. According to this model the detectability at the moment t is determine...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Allik J,Dzhafarov EN

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two alternative schemes have been proposed for coding the local direction of stimulus motion in the visual image. The "sequence discrimination" scheme (e.g. Barlow H.B. and Levick W. R., J. Physiol., Lond. 178, 477-504, 1965) uses sequential change in stimulus position over time to infer movement direction; the "spati...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Mather G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a colored line connects two black (or differently colored) lines across a gap, colored neon flanks are seen on either side of it. These flanks extend over gap sizes of 50 min arc foveally and are not explained by Bezold-type assimilation. They may be elicited by black lines as short as 6 min arc adjoining the col...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Redies C,Spillmann L,Kunz K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies using visual double stimuli along the horizontal axis have revealed a strong averaging tendency in the saccadic system. This study shows averaging also for equally eccentric double stimuli with a modest difference in direction (delta phi = 30 deg). When the difference is enlarged (delta phi = 90 deg) t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ottes FP,Van Gisbergen JA,Eggermont JJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of aspartate (Asp) on the ERG and on neuronal, glial, and K+ responses were monitored continuously in the superfused mudpuppy eyecup. Asp induced a time-dependent sequence of events which may be divided into three stages: Stage 1, initially, light-evoked responses throughout the retina are depressed; Stage...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Shimazaki H,Karwoski CJ,Proenza LM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal processing limits were determined for two types of stereoscopic percept associated with square wave disparity alternation: apparent depth motion and depth pulsation. The stimuli were dynamic random dot stereograms containing no monocular cues for either target motion or disparity change. The percept of a sing...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Norcia AM,Tyler CW

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Westheimer -like function has been obtained for simple reaction time (RT) to target luminance increments superimposed upon homogeneous background fields. RT to a constant-luminance target progressively increases as the outer diameter of a constant-luminance background is increased up to approximately 6'-8'. Further ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wilson A

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Using a variety of measures it has been shown that processing time increases with increasing spatial frequency. Long and Sakitt (1981) [Vision Res. 21, 1387-1393] investigated duration of visible persistence as a function of both spatial frequency and number of cycles present. They concluded that number of cycles and ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Lovegrove WJ,Meyer GE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duration of visible persistence is known to be inversely related to the duration of the inducing stimulus, within a critical interval estimated at between 100 and 150 msec. Stimuli longer than the critical interval yield little or no persistence. Six experiments investigated whether a brief period of intensification a...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Di Lollo V,Bourassa CM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pupil responses to light are greatly influenced by initial pupil size. Small pupils, operating under photopic conditions, show tonic responses to step increases of light and high gains; thus the pupil is a good regulator of light. Large pupils, operating under mesopic or scotopic conditions show phasic responses, "pup...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Sun F,Stark L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theory of retinal colour coding based closely on recent anatomical and physiological results is presented. Opponent colour channels are shown to be an inevitable result of any randomly distributed retinal cone mosaic, the structure of red-green opponent colour channels remaining uninfluenced by a predominance of "re...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Paulus W,Kröger-Paulus A

更新日期：1983-01-01 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

abstract：:Neurons involved in the transfer of rod signals to the ganglion cells in the retina of the cat have been recorded from and stained with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and their synaptic connections determined by electron microscopy. The single morphological type of rod bipolar cell responds with a sustained hyperpolariz...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kolb H,Nelson R

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Favreau OE,Cavanagh P

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial properties of horizontal cells in the tiger salamander retina were studied with intracellular electrodes. It was found that when the rod input to horizontal cells is dominant the receptive fields are smaller than those measured under conditions of strong cone activation. A possible explanation for this fin...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hanani M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological recording and microspectrophotometry were used to analyze retinal function in representatives of the two surviving genera of holostean grade fish--the bowfin (Amia calva) and gars (Lepisosteus sp.). The properties of the cone photopigments, horizontal cells and ganglion cells show that these holos...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Burkhardt DA,Gottesman J,Levine JS,MacNichol EF Jr

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Shingai R,Hida E,Naka K

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of synaptic transfer from photoreceptors to second order neurons have been determined in the retina of the snapping turtle. Analysis of the fluctuations resulting from the random release of cone transmitter molecules reveals that the action on postsynaptic channels of the depolarizing bipolar cells is pro...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Copenhagen DR,Ashmore JF,Schnapf JK

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thresholds for the detection of contrast differences and spatial frequency differences present in a sine-wave grating with suprathreshold contrast were measured as a function of the size of the grating and the number of cycles in the grating. For gratings with the same number of cycles, these thresholds are found to b...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Jamar JH,Koenderink JJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vergence angle and accommodative state were assessed photographically in 3-, 6-, and 12-month old infants. In the dark, fluctuations of vergence and accommodation were generally uncorrelated among all groups. The vergence-accommodation functions obtained in the dark had a mean slope of 0.04. These findings provide evi...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Aslin RN,Dobson V

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocular, steady-state accommodative responses were measured as a function of spatial frequency of simple sinusoidal gratings presented at high contrast and target vergence levels in amblyopes, as well as in strabismics without amblyopia and in visually-normal control subjects. In general, spatial frequency dependenc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ciuffreda KJ,Hokoda SC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Which visual channel detects high spatial frequencies during careful fixation? Color vision models based on psychophysical data contradict electrophysiological results. According to electrophysiology, the channel which mediates foveal acuity originates in the small, tonic color-opponent r-g units of the X-cell pathway...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ingling CR Jr,Martinez-Uriegas E

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00