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ArticleInvestigative ophthalmology & visual science2022

Suprathreshold Contrast Perception Is Altered by Long-term Adaptation to Habitual Optical Blur.

Cherlyn J Ng, Ramkumar Sabesan, Antoine Barbot, Martin S Banks, Geunyoung Yoon

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Article in Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 authors.

Cherlyn J NgCollege of Optometry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Ramkumar SabesanDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
Antoine BarbotDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States.
Martin S BanksSchool of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Geunyoung YoonCollege of Optometry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.

Funding

Research Programming ModuleP30EY007551 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI LAURA J. FRISHMAN · 1988 to 2026
$16.4M
Mechanisms and plasticity of long term visual adaptation to ocular opticsR01EY014999 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI GEUNYOUNG YOON · 2003 to 2026
$5.9M
Photoreceptor mosaic in health and diseaseR01EY029710 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Ramkumar Sabesan · 2019 to 2026
$2.9M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY007551NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014999NEI NIH HHS R01 EY029710
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: To investigate whether visual experience with habitual blur alters the neural processing of suprathreshold contrast in emmetropic and highly aberrated eyes. Methods: A large stroke adaptive optics system was used to correct ocular aberrations. Contrast constancy was assessed psychophysically in emmetropic and keratoconic eyes using a contrast matching paradigm. Participants adjusted the contrasts of gratings at various spatial frequencies to match the contrast perception of a reference grating at 4 c/deg. Matching was done both with fully corrected and uncorrected ocular aberrations. Optical correction allowed keratoconus patients to perceive high spatial frequencies that they have not experienced for some time. Results: Emmetropic observers exhibited contrast constancy both with their native aberrations and when their aberrations were corrected. Keratoconus patients exhibited contrast constancy with their uncorrected, native optics but they did not exhibit constancy during adaptive optics correction. Instead. they exhibited striking underconstancy: they required more contrast at high spatial frequencies than the contrast of the 4-c/deg stimulus to make them seem to have the same contrast. Conclusions: The presence of contrast constancy in emmetropes and keratoconus patients viewing with their native optics suggests that they have learned to amplify neural signals to offset the effects of habitual optical aberrations. The fact that underconstancy was observed in keratoconus patients when their optics were corrected suggests that they were unable to learn the appropriate neural amplification because they did not have experience with fine spatial detail. These results show that even adults can learn neural amplification to counteract the effects of their own optical aberrations.

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KeratoconusAdultEmmetropiaHumansOptics and PhotonicsVision Disorders

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PMID36223102
PMCPMC9583751

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