Push-pull training reduces foveal sensory eye dominance within the early visual channels

Vision Research

Volumn 61, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-59

  Xu, Jingping P ^a   He, Zijiang J ^a   Ooi, Teng Leng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b SALUS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Interocular inhibitory mechanism; Perceptual learning; Primary visual cortex; Sensory eye dominance; Stereopsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH PULL TRAINING; RETINA FOVEA; SENSORY EYE DOMINANCE; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; TRAINING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955229487     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Appelle S. Perception and discrimination as a function of stimulus orientation: The " oblique effect" in man and animals. Psychological Bulletin 1972, 78:266-278.
2. Blake R., Fox R. Adaptation to 'invisible' gratings and the site of binocular rivalry suppression. Nature 1974, 249:488-490.
3. Blake R., Tadin D., Sobel K., Raissian T., Chong S.C. Strength of visual adaptation depends on visual awareness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006, 103:4783-4788.
4. Blake R., Westendorf D.H., Overton R. What is suppressed during binocular rivalry?. Perception 1980, 9:223-231.
5. Blakemore C., Campbell F.W. On the existence of neurones in the human visual system selectively sensitive to the orientation and size of retinal images. Journal of Physiology 1969, 203:237-260.
6. Brainard D.H. The psychophysics toolbox. Spatial Vision 1997, 10:433-436.
7. Campbell F.W., Kulikowski J.J. Orientational selectivity of the human visual system. Journal of Physiology 1966, 187:437-445.
8. Chung S.T., Li R.W., Levi D.M. Identification of contrast-defined letters benefits from perceptual learning in adults with amblyopia. Vision Research 2006, 46:3853-3861.
9. De Valois R.L., Albrecht D.G., Thorell L.G. Spatial frequency selectivity of cells in macaque visual cortex. Vision Research 1982, 22:545-559.
10. Fahle M. Specificity of learning curvature, orientation, and vernier discriminations. Vision Research 1997, 37:1885-1895.
11. Fahle M. Perceptual learning: A case for early selection. Journal of Vision 2004, 4:879-890.
12. Fiorentini A., Berardi N. Perceptual learning specific for orientation and spatial frequency. Nature 1980, 287:43-44.
13. Gardner J.L., Sun P., Waggoner R.A., Ueno K., Tanaka K., Cheng K. Contrast adaptation and representation in human early visual cortex. Neuron 2005, 47:607-620.
14. Gilbert C.D., Sigman M., Crist R.E. The neural basis of perceptual learning. Neuron 2001, 31:681-697.
15. Graham N., Nachmias J. Detection of grating patterns containing two spatial frequencies: A comparison of single-channel and multiple-channel models. Vision Research 1971, 11:251-260.
16. Greenlee M.W., Georgeson M.A., Magnussen S., Harris J.P. The time course of adaptation to spatial contrast. Vision Research 1991, 31:223-236.
17. Halpern L., Blake R.R. How contrast affects stereoacuity. Perception 1988, 17:483-495.
18. Harauzov A., Spolidoro M., DiCristo G., De Pasquale R., Cancedda L., Pizzorusso T., et al. Reducing intracortical inhibition in the adult visual cortex promotes ocular dominance plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience 2010, 30:361-371.
19. Hebb D.O. The organization of behavior 1949, Wiley, New York.
20. Hensch T.K., Fagiolini M., Mataga N., Stryker M.P., Baekkeskov S., Kash S.F. Local GABA circuit control of experience-dependent plasticity in developing visual cortex. Science 1998, 282:1504-1508.
21. Huang Z.J., Kirkwood A., Pizzorusso T., Porciatti V., Morales B., Bear M.F., et al. BDNF regulates the maturation of inhibition and the critical period of plasticity in mouse visual cortex. Cell 1999, 98:739-755.
22. Huang C., Tao L., Zhou Y., Lu Z.L. Treated amblyopes remain deficient in spatial vision: A contrast sensitivity and external noise study. Vision Research 2007, 47:22-34.
23. Hubel D.H., Wiesel T.N. Receptive fields and functional architecture of monkey striate cortex. Journal of Physiology 1968, 195:215-243.
24. Karmarkar U.R., Dan Y. Experience-dependent plasticity in adult visual cortex. Neuron 2006, 52:577-585.
25. Karni A., Sagi D. Where practice makes perfect in texture discrimination: Evidence for primary visual cortex plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1991, 88:4966-4970.
26. Kastner S., Ungerleider L.G. Mechanisms of visual attention in the human cortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience 2000, 23:315-341.
27. Kontsevich L.L., Tyler C.W. Analysis of stereo thresholds for stimuli below 2.5cpd. Vision Research 1994, 34:2317-2329.
28. Legge G.E., Gu Y. Stereopsis and contrast. Vision Research 1989, 29:989-1004.
29. Levi D.M., Li R.W. Perceptual learning as a potential treatment for amblyopia. Vision Research 2009, 49:2535-2549.
30. Levi D.M., Polat U. Neural plasticity in adults with amblyopia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1996, 93:6830-6834.
31. Li R.W., Levi D.M. Characterizing the mechanisms of improvement for position discrimination in adult amblyopia. Journal of Vision 2004, 4:476-487.
32. Liu X.Y., Zhang T., Jia Y.L., Wang N.L., Yu C. The therapeutic impact of perceptual learning on juvenile amblyopia with or without previous patching treatment. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 2011, 52:1531-1538.
33. Maunsell J.H., Van Essen D.C. Functional properties of neurons in middle temporal visual area of the macaque monkey. II. Binocular interactions and sensitivity to binocular disparity. Journal of Neurophysiology 1983, 49:1148-1167.
34. McAdams C.J., Maunsell J.H. Effects of attention on orientation-tuning functions of single neurons in macaque cortical area V4. Journal of Neuroscience 1999, 19:431-441.
35. Mednick S.C., Arman A.C., Boynton G.M. The time course and specificity of perceptual deterioration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005, 102:3881-3885.
36. Mednick S.C., Nakayama K., Cantero J.L., Atienza M., Levin A.A., Pathak N., et al. The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration. Nature Neuroscience 2002, 5:677-681.
37. Movshon J.A., Blakemore C. Orientation specificity and spatial selectivity in human vision. Perception 1973, 2:53-60.
38. Movshon J.A., Lennie P. Pattern-selective adaptation in visual cortical neurones. Nature 1979, 278:850-852.
39. Ofen N., Moran A., Sagi D. Effects of trial repetition in texture discrimination. Vision Research 2007, 47:1094-1102.
40. Ohzawa I., Sclar G., Freeman R.D. Contrast gain control in the cat visual cortex. Nature 1982, 298:266-268.
41. Ooi, T. L., & He, Z. J. (1996). Unequal interocular suppression in stereopsis. Paper was presented at the American academy of optometry meeting (p. 139).
42. Ooi T.L., He Z.J. Binocular rivalry and visual awareness: The role of attention. Perception 1999, 28:551-574.
43. Ooi T.L., He Z.J. Sensory eye dominance. Optometry 2001, 72:168-178.
44. Parker A.J., Hawken M.J. Two-dimensional spatial structure of receptive fields in monkey striate cortex. Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics and Image Science 1988, 5:598-605.
45. Pelli D.G. The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: Transforming numbers into movies. Spatial Vision 1997, 10:437-442.
46. Phillips G.C., Wilson H.R. Orientation bandwidths of spatial mechanisms measured by masking. Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics and Image Science 1984, 1:226-232.
47. Polat U., Ma-Naim T., Belkin M., Sagi D. Improving vision in adult amblyopia by perceptual learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004, 101:6692-6697.
48. Sagi D., Tanne D. Perceptual learning: Learning to see. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 1994, 4:195-199.
49. Sally S.L., Poirier F.J., Gurnsey R. Orientation discrimination across the visual field: Size estimates near contrast threshold. Perception Psychophysics 2005, 67:638-647.
50. Sasaki Y., Nanez J.E., Watanabe T. Advances in visual perceptual learning and plasticity. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2010, 11:53-60.
51. Schor C.M. Binocular sensory disorders. Vision and visual dysfunction 1991, 179-218. CRC Press, Boston. D. Regan (Ed.).
52. Schoups A.A., Vogels R., Orban G.A. Human perceptual learning in identifying the oblique orientation: Retinotopy, orientation specificity and monocularity. Journal of Physiology 1995, 483:797-810.
53. Shiu L.P., Pashler H. Improvement in line orientation discrimination is retinally local but dependent on cognitive set. Perception Psychophysics 1992, 52:582-588.
54. Tibber M.S., Guedes A., Shepherd A.J. Orientation discrimination and contrast detection thresholds in migraine for cardinal and oblique angles. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 2006, 47:5599-5604.
55. Truchard A.M., Ohzawa I., Freeman R.D. Contrast gain control in the visual cortex: Monocular versus binocular mechanisms. Journal of Neuroscience 2000, 20:3017-3032.
56. Vandenbussche E., Vogels R., Orban G.A. Human orientation discrimination: Changes with eccentricity in normal and amblyopic vision. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 1986, 27:237-245.
57. Wilson H.R., McFarlane D.K., Phillips G.C. Spatial frequency tuning of orientation selective units estimated by oblique masking. Vision Research 1983, 23:873-882.
58. Wolfe J.M. Stereopsis and binocular rivalry. Psychological Review 1986, 93:269-282.
59. Xiao L.Q., Zhang J.Y., Wang R., Klein S.A., Levi D.M., Yu C. Complete transfer of perceptual learning across retinal locations enabled by double training. Current Biology 2008, 18:1922-1926.
60. Xu, J. P., He, Z. J., & Ooi, T.L. (2011). Perceptual learning to reduce sensory eye dominance beyond the focus of top-down visual attention. Vision Research, in press. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2011.05.013.
61. Xu J.P., He Z.J., Ooi T.L. Effectively reducing sensory eye dominance with a push-pull perceptual learning protocol. Current Biology 2010, 20:1864-1868.
62. Yoshor D., Ghose G.M., Bosking W.H., Sun P., Maunsell J.H.R. Spatial attention does not strongly modulate neuronal responses in early human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 27:13205-13209.
63. Yotsumoto Y., Chang L., Watanabe T., Sasaki Y. Interference and feature specificity in visual perceptual learning. Vision Research 2009, 49:2611-2623.
64. Zhang T., Xiao L.Q., Klein S.A., Levi D.M., Yu C. Decoupling location specificity from perceptual learning of orientation discrimination. Vision Research 2010, 50:368-374.
65. Zhou Y., Huang C., Xu P., Tao L., Qiu Z., Li X., et al. Perceptual learning improves contrast sensitivity and visual acuity in adults with anisometropic amblyopia. Vision Research 2008, 46:739-750.