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ArticleJournal of vision2020

High-acuity vision from retinal image motion.

Alexander G Anderson, Kavitha Ratnam, Austin Roorda, Bruno A Olshausen

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Article in Journal of vision, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. The Optimal Retinal Locus for High-Resolution Vision in Space and Time.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  13. Fixational eye movements as active sensation for high visual acuity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. Oculomotor Contributions to Foveal Crowding.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexander G AndersonPhysics Department and Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Kavitha RatnamSchool of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Austin RoordaSchool of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Bruno A OlshausenSchool of Optometry, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
University of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Advanced Technology to Study Visual Function on a Cellular ScaleR01EY023591 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI DUNCAN, JACQUE LYNNE, ROORDA, AUSTIN · 2014 to 2023
$11.2M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY023591
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A mathematical model and a possible neural mechanism are proposed to account for how fixational drift motion in the retina confers a benefit for the discrimination of high-acuity targets. We show that by simultaneously estimating object shape and eye motion, neurons in visual cortex can compute a higher quality representation of an object by averaging out non-uniformities in the retinal sampling lattice. The model proposes that this is accomplished by two separate populations of cortical neurons - one providing a representation of object shape and another representing eye position or motion - which are coupled through specific multiplicative connections. Combined with recent experimental findings, our model suggests that the visual system may utilize principles not unlike those used in computational imaging for achieving "super-resolution" via camera motion.

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Models, TheoreticalHumansMotion PerceptionNeuronsRetinaVisual AcuityVisual Cortex

Identifiers

PMID32735342
PMCPMC7424138
OpenAlexW3046908298

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