ArticleCurrent biology : CB2019
Monovision and the Misperception of Motion.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Surgical interventions for presbyopia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- A Common Prescription Lens Correction Causes Motion Illusions in the Presbyopic and General Populations.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026Article
- Visual and accommodative outcomes after femtosecond LASIK with and without monovision in patients over 40 years.International journal of ophthalmology · 2026Article
- The Long-Term Absence of Static Stereopsis Cultivates Adaptive Planning of Reaching-to-Grasp.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Monovision-induced motion illusions in presbyopic and non-presbyopic populations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Integration of Visual Motion Signals in Reduced Visual Conditions.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Continuous psychophysics: past, present, future.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025Review
- The Relationship Between Binocular Imbalance and Myopic Shift in Unoperated Eyes After Unilateral SMILE and tPRK.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Motion Misperception in Anisomyopia Before and After Optical Correction.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Decreases in overall light level increase the severity of the reverse Pulfrich effect.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Understanding Patient Experiences Before and After Monovision LASIK for Hyperopia and Presbyopia: A Qualitative Approach.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Continuous psychophysics shows millisecond-scale visual processing delays are faithfully preserved in movement dynamics.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Measuring the Interocular Delay and its Link to Visual Acuity in Amblyopia.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
- The Pulfrich solidity illusion: a surprising demonstration of the visual system's tolerance of solidity violations.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Case report of the evidence of a spontaneous Reverse Pulfrich effect in monovision after cataract surgery.BMC ophthalmology · 2023Article
- Perceptual consequences of interocular differences in the duration of temporal integration.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Correction of presbyopia.Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2022Article
- Delayed Correction for Extrapolation in Amblyopia.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2021Article
- The magnitude of monocular light attenuation required to elicit the Pulfrich illusion.Vision research · 2021Article
- Presbyopia Treatments by Mechanism of Action: A New Classification System Based on a Review of the Literature.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Monovision is a common prescription lens correction for presbyopia [1]. Each eye is corrected for a different distance, causing one image to be blurrier than the other. Millions of people have monovision corrections, but little is known about how interocular blur differences affect motion perception. Here, we report that blur differences cause a previously unknown motion illusion that makes people dramatically misperceive the distance and three-dimensional direction of moving objects. The effect occurs because the blurry and sharp images are processed at different speeds. For moving objects, the mismatch in processing speed causes a neural disparity, which results in the misperceptions. A variant of a 100-year-old stereo-motion phenomenon called the Pulfrich effect [2], the illusion poses an apparent paradox: blur reduces contrast, and contrast reductions are known to cause neural processing delays [3-6], but our results indicate that blurry images are processed milliseconds more quickly. We resolve the paradox with known properties of the early visual system, show that the misperceptions can be severe enough to impact public safety, and demonstrate that the misperceptions can be eliminated with novel combinations of non-invasive ophthalmic interventions. The fact that substantial perceptual errors are caused by millisecond differences in processing speed highlights the exquisite temporal calibration required for accurate perceptual estimation. The motion illusion-the reverse Pulfrich effect-and the paradigm we use to measure it should help reveal how optical and image properties impact temporal processing, an important but understudied issue in vision and visual neuroscience.
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