Foveal blur discrimination of the human eye

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-51

  Wang, Bin ^a   Ciuffreda, Kenneth J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Blur discrimination; Blur perception; Contrast discrimination; Retinal defocus

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ACCOMMODATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 16844385344     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2004.00250.x     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Borish, I. M. and Benjamin, W. J. (1998) Monocular and binocular subjective refraction. In: Borish's Clinical Refraction (ed. W. J. Benjamin), Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 629-723.
2. Bradley, A. and Ohzawa, I. (1986) A comparison of contrast detection and discrimination. Vision. Res. 26, 991-997.
3. Campbell, F. W. and Westheimer, G. (1958) Sensitivity of the eye to differences in focus. J. Physiol. 143, 18P.
4. Charman, W. N. (1991) Optics of the human eye. In: Vision and Visual Dysfunction: Visual Optics and Instrumentation, vol. 1 (ed. W. N. Charman), MacMillan, London, UK, pp. 1-26.
5. Charman, W. N. and Jennings, J. A. M. (1976) The optical quality of the monochromatic retinal image as a function of focus. Br. J. Physiol. Optics 31, 119-134.
6. Ciuffreda, K. J. (1991) Accommodation and its anomalies. In: Vision and Visual Dysfunction: Visual Optics and Instrumentation, vol. 1, (ed. W. N. Charman), MacMillan, London, UK, pp. 231-279.
7. Ciuffreda, K. J. (1998) Accommodation, pupil, and presbyopia. In: Borish's Clinical Refraction (ed. W. J. Benjamin), Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 77-120.
8. Denieul, P. (1982) Effects of stimulus vergence on mean accommodation response, microfluctuations of accommodation and optical quality of the human eye. Vision. Res. 22, 561-569.
9. Hamerly, J. R. and Dvorak, C. A. (1981) Detection and discrimination of blur in edges and lines. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71, 448-452.
10. Hopkins, H. H. (1955) The frequency response of a defocused optical system. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., A 231, 91-103.
11. Jacobs, R. J., Smith, G. and Chan, C. D. (1989) Effect of defocus on blur thresholds and on thresholds of perceived change in blur: comparison of source and observer methods. Optorn. Vis. Sci. 66, 545-553.
12. Mather, G. (1997) The use of image blur as a depth cue. Perception 26, 1147-1158.
13. Mather, G. and Smith, R. R. (2002) Blur discrimination and its relation to blur-mediated depth perception. Perception 31, 1211-1219.
14. Mordi, J. A. and Charman, W. N. (1986) Effects of 0.1% cyclopentolate or 10% phenylephrine on pupil diameter and accommodation. Ophthalmic. Physiol. Opt. 6, 221-227.
15. Mordi, J. A. and Ciuffreda, K. J. (1998) Static aspects of accommodation: age and presbyopia. Vision Res. 38, 1643-1653.
16. Morgan, M. J. and Dresp, B. (1995) Contrast detection facilitation by spatially separated targets and inducers. Vision Res. 35, 1019-1024.
17. Nachmias, J. and Sansbury, R. V. (1974) Letter: Grating contrast: discrimination may be better than detection. Vision Res. 14, 1039-1042.
18. O'Leary, D. (1988) Subjective refraction. In: Optometry (eds. K. Edwards and R. Llewellyn), Butterworth, Boston, MA, USA, pp. 111-139.
19. Palmer, S. E. (1999) Psychophysical methods. In: Vision Science (ed. S. E. Palmer), Bradford Books, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 665-674.
20. Remole, A. (1982) Spatial frequency thresholds versus border enhancement: sensitivity to retinal defocus. Am. J. Optom. Physiol. Optics 59, 135-145.
21. Rosenfield, M. and Linfield, P. B. (1986) A comparison of the effects of cycloplegics on accommodation ability for distance vision and on the apparent near point. Ophthalmic. Physiol. Opt. 6, 317-320.
22. Walsh, G. and Charman, W. N. (1988) Visual sensitivity to temporal change in focus and its relevance to the accommodation response. Vision Res. 28, 1207-1221.
23. Wang, B. and Ciuffreda, K. J. (2004). Depth-of-focus of the human eye in the near retinal periphery. Vision Res. 44, 1115-1125.
24. Watt, R. J. and Morgan, M. J. (1983) The recognition and representation of edge blur: evidence for spatial primitives in vision. Vision Res. 23, 1465-1477.
25. Westheimer, G. and McKee, S. P. (1977) Spatial configurations for visual hyperacuity. Vision Res. 17, 941-947.