Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31030000›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019

Attention deficits in Amblyopia.

Preeti Verghese, Suzanne P McKee, Dennis M Levi

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Current opinion in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05114252 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Stereoptic Serious Games as a Visual Rehabilitation Tool for Individuals With Residual Amblyopia: A Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial - AMBlyopia and stEReoptic Games for Vision

TypeinterventionalSponsorPawel Matusz, PhDRan2022 to 2024Enrolled30ConditionsAmblyopia, HealthyArmsVivid Vision Home, Refractive error correction
NCT06150391 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Dichoptic Gabor Videogame Program to Improve Visual Function in Children With Amblyopia

TypeinterventionalSponsorHospital de MeridaRan2023 to 2024Enrolled120ConditionsAmblyopiaArmsVisionary: computer exercises using dichoptic Gabor Patches and band-filtered noise masks, Patching
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Amblyopia: progress and promise of functional magnetic resonance imaging.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2023
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Adaptive, social, and repetitive behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorder and comorbid amblyopia and/or strabismus.Journal of AAPOS : the official publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus · 2026
    Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Review
  12. Differential Impacts of Strabismic and Anisometropic Amblyopia on the Mesoscale Functional Organization of the Human Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
    Article
  13. Article
  14. Fixation Stability Deficits in Anisometropic Amblyopia.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025
    Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Oculomotor Contributions to Foveal Crowding.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
    Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Preeti VergheseThe Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States. Electronic address: preeti@ski.org.
Suzanne P McKeeThe Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Dennis M LeviOptometry and Vision Science, University of California Berkeley, CA, United States.

Funding

Maximizing Visual Potential in Age-Related Macular DegenerationR01EY027390 · NEI · SMITH-KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Preeti Verghese · 2017 to 2026
$5.7M
A New Approach to Restoring Visual Acuity and Stereopsis in Adults with AmblyopiaR01EY020976 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI BANKS, MARTIN S, BAVELIER, DAPHNE I · 2010 to 2020
$4.7M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY020976NEI NIH HHS R01 EY027390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amblyopia is a neuro-developmental abnormality associated with deficits in a broad range of both low-level and high-level visual tasks. This is particularly true in strabismic amblyopia where fixation is unstable and there is an increased frequency of microsaccades. In light of the close association between eye movements and attention, we propose a novel hypothesis: that the cost of unstable fixation in amblyopia is a deficit in selective attention. The increased latency for saccades and manual response time with amblyopic-eye viewing is consistent with attention being distracted by unwanted fixational eye movements. We review other attention deficits in amblyopia and discuss whether they are explained by fixation instability, or whether they involve a form of neglect or suppression of the visual input from the amblyopic eye.

Indexed as

AttentionSaccadesAmblyopiaHumansReaction Time

Identifiers

PMID31030000
PMCPMC6755070

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.