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ReviewAnnual review of vision science2016

Low Vision and Plasticity: Implications for Rehabilitation.

Gordon E Legge, Susana T L Chung

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Review in Annual review of vision science, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The Effect of Contrast Reversal on Peripheral Visual Acuity.Translational vision science & technology · 2025
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  7. Static or Temporal? Semantic Scene Simplification to Aid Wayfinding in Immersive Simulations of Bionic Vision.Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology · 2025
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  20. Reduced visual acuity is mirrored in low vision imagery.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gordon E LeggeDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455; email: legge@umn.edu.
Susana T L ChungSchool of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720; email: s.chung@berkeley.edu.

Funding

PSYCHOPHYSICS OF READING: NORMAL AND LOW VISIONR01EY002934 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI LEGGE, GORDON E · 1985 to 2018
$5.8M
Designing Visually Accessible SpacesR01EY017835 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LEGGE, GORDON E · 2007 to 2018
$5.4M
READING IN PERIPHERAL VISIONR01EY012810 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI CHUNG, SUSANA T · 2000 to 2017
$3.8M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY002934NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012810NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017835
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low vision is any type of visual impairment that affects activities of daily living. In the context of low vision, we define plasticity as changes in brain or perceptual behavior that follow the onset of visual impairment and that are not directly due to the underlying pathology. An important goal of low-vision research is to determine how plasticity affects visual performance of everyday activities. In this review, we consider the levels of the visual system at which plasticity occurs, the impact of age and visual experience on plasticity, and whether plastic changes are spontaneous or require explicit training. We also discuss how plasticity may affect low-vision rehabilitation. Developments in retinal imaging, noninvasive brain imaging, and eye tracking have supplemented traditional clinical and psychophysical methods for assessing how the visual system adapts to visual impairment. Findings from contemporary research are providing tools to guide people with low vision in adopting appropriate rehabilitation strategies.

Indexed as

Contrast SensitivityHumansNeuronal PlasticityOptical ImagingVision, LowVisual AcuityVisual FieldsVisual Perceptioncontrast sensitivitycritical periodretinavisual acuityvisual cortexvisual deprivationvisual fieldvisual impairment

Identifiers

PMID28532346
PMCPMC7792632

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