ArticleJournal of vision2021
How chromatic cues can guide human eye growth to achieve good focus.
Article in Journal of vision, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06598423 (Pilot Test of a Novel Wavelength-Based Method to Control Childhood Myopia), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers.
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Pilot Test of a Novel Wavelength-Based Method to Control Childhood Myopia
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
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- IMI: The Role of Light in Refractive Development and Myopia: Evidence from Animal and Human Studies.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Review
- Nonlinear spatial integration allows the retina to detect the sign of defocus in natural scenes.Science advances · 2025Article
- Childhood Myopia Part II: Treatment Mechanisms, Emerging Options, and Considerations.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Review
- Optical and Visual Diet in Myopia.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Review
- An Ocular Gene-Set Expression Library for Heritability Partition and Cell Line Enrichment Analyses.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- An Alternative Mechanism for the Anti-Myopia Effectiveness of Diffusion Optics Technology (DOT) Lenses.Translational vision science & technology · 2025Article
- Refractive development II: Modelling normal and myopic eye growth.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2025Article
- Diffusion Optics Technology (DOT): A Myopia Control Spectacle Lens Based on Contrast Theory.Translational vision science & technology · 2024Review
- A Child-Friendly Wearable Device for Quantifying Environmental Risk Factors for Myopia.Translational vision science & technology · 2024Article
- The Parameters Governing the Anti-Myopia Efficacy of Chromatically Simulated Myopic Defocus in Tree Shrews.Translational vision science & technology · 2024Article
- The effects of ambient narrowband long-wavelength light on lens-induced myopia and form-deprivation myopia in tree shrews.Experimental eye research · 2023Article
- IMI 2023 Digest.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023Article
- Limited bandwidth short-wavelength light produces slowly-developing myopia in tree shrews similar to human juvenile-onset myopia.Vision research · 2023Article
- Myopia: why the retina stops inhibiting eye growth.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Chromatically simulated myopic blur counteracts a myopiagenic environment.Experimental eye research · 2022Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The postnatal growing eye uses visual cues to actively control its own axial elongation to achieve and maintain sharp focus, a process termed emmetropization. The primary visual cue may be the difference in image sharpness as sensed by the arrays of short- and long-wavelength sensitive cone photoreceptors caused by longitudinal chromatic aberration: Shorter wavelengths focus in front of longer wavelengths. However, the sparse distribution of short-wavelength sensitive cones across the retina suggests that they do not have sufficient spatial sampling resolution for this task. Here, we show that the spacing of the short-wavelength sensitive cones in humans is sufficient for them, in conjunction with the longer wavelength cones, to use chromatic signals to detect defocus and guide emmetropization. We hypothesize that the retinal spacing of the short-wavelength sensitive cones in many mammalian species is an evolutionarily ancient adaption that allows the efficient use of chromatic cues in emmetropization.
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