ArticleScientific reports2020
Contact lenses, the reverse Pulfrich effect, and anti-Pulfrich monovision corrections.
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- A Common Prescription Lens Correction Causes Motion Illusions in the Presbyopic and General Populations.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026Article
- Monovision-induced motion illusions in presbyopic and non-presbyopic populations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- The magnitude of monocular light attenuation required to elicit the Pulfrich illusion.Vision research · 2021Article
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Abstract
Interocular differences in image blur can cause processing speed differences that lead to dramatic misperceptions of the distance and three-dimensional direction of moving objects. This recently discovered illusion-the reverse Pulfrich effect-is caused by optical conditions induced by monovision, a common correction for presbyopia. Fortunately, anti-Pulfrich monovision corrections, which darken the blurring lens, can eliminate the illusion for many viewing conditions. However, the reverse Pulfrich effect and the efficacy of anti-Pulfrich corrections have been demonstrated only with trial lenses. This situation should be addressed, for clinical and scientific reasons. First, it is important to replicate these effects with contact lenses, the most common method for delivering monovision. Second, trial lenses of different powers, unlike contacts, can cause large magnification differences between the eyes. To confidently attribute the reverse Pulfrich effect to interocular optical blur differences, and to ensure that previously reported effect sizes are reliable, one must control for magnification. Here, in a within-observer study with five separate experiments, we demonstrate that (1) contact lenses and trial lenses induce indistinguishable reverse Pulfrich effects, (2) anti-Pulfrich corrections are equally effective when induced by contact and trial lenses, and (3) magnification differences do not cause or impact the Pulfrich effect.
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