ArticleJournal of vision2020
Resolution acuity across the visual field for mesopic and scotopic illumination.
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- Association between Baseline Subfoveal Choroidal Thickness and Anatomical and Functional Outcomes in Geographic Atrophy.Ophthalmology science · 2026Article
- Temporal Sensitivity Under Photopic and Scotopic Conditions Across the Cortical Visual Hierarchy.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Impact of Rod-Dominant Mesopic Conditions on Spatial Summation and Surround Suppression in Early Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Ambient lighting alters pattern electroretinogram P50 peak time and spatial sensitivity.Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology · 2024Article
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- The Effect of Induced Intraocular Stray Light on Recognition Thresholds for Pseudo-High-Pass Filtered Letters.Translational vision science & technology · 2022Article
- Identifying the Retinal Layers Linked to Human Contrast Sensitivity Via Deep Learning.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2022Article
- Spatial Dissociation of Subretinal Drusenoid Deposits and Impaired Scotopic and Mesopic Sensitivity in AMD.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2022Article
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Abstract
We investigated the classical question of why visual acuity decreases with decreasing retinal illuminance by holding retinal eccentricity fixed while illumination varied. Our results indicate that acuity is largely independent of illuminance at any given retinal location, which suggests that under classical free-viewing conditions acuity improves as illumination increases from rod threshold to rod saturation because the retinal location of the stimulus is permitted to migrate from a peripheral location of maximum sensitivity but poor acuity to the foveal location of maximum acuity but poor sensitivity. Comparison with anatomical sampling density of retinal neurons suggests that mesopic acuity at all eccentricities and scotopic acuity for eccentricities beyond about 20° is limited by the spacing of midget ganglion cells. In central retina, however, scotopic acuity is further limited by spatial filtering due to spatial summation within the large, overlapping receptive fields of the A-II class of amacrine cells interposed in the rod pathway between rod bipolars and midget ganglion cells. Our results offer a mechanistic interpretation of the clinical metrics for low-luminance visual dysfunction used to monitor progression of retinal disease.
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