ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2012
The Tölz Temporal Topography Study: mapping the visual field across the life span. Part I: the topography of light detection and temporal-information processing.
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- Speed of visual processing across the visual field.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2026Review
- Spatial but not temporal orienting of attention enhances the temporal acuity of human peripheral vision.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Temporal acuity of vision decreases with eccentricity in virtual reality and is associated with schizotypy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Asymmetries in visual acuity around the visual field.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Individual differences in the shape of the nasal visual field.Vision research · 2017Article
- A matter of time: improvement of visual temporal processing during training-induced restoration of light detection performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- The second face of blindness: processing speed deficits in the intact visual field after pre- and post-chiasmatic lesions.PloS one · 2013Article
- Peripheral vision and pattern recognition: a review.Journal of vision · 2011Review
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Abstract
Temporal performance parameters vary across the visual field. Their topographical distributions relative to each other and relative to basic visual performance measures and their relative change over the life span are unknown. Our goal was to characterize the topography and age-related change of temporal performance. We acquired visual field maps in 95 healthy participants (age: 10-90 years): perimetric thresholds, double-pulse resolution (DPR), reaction times (RTs), and letter contrast thresholds. DPR and perimetric thresholds increased with eccentricity and age; the periphery showed a more pronounced age-related increase than the center. RT increased only slightly and uniformly with eccentricity. It remained almost constant up to the age of 60, a marked change occurring only above 80. Overall, age was a poor predictor of functionality. Performance decline could be explained only in part by the aging of the retina and optic media. In Part II, we therefore examine higher visual and cognitive functions.
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