McKee, S. P., & Verghese, P. . (2023). Binocular Vision. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Psychology. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.885 (Original work published 2023)
Suzanne McKee
McKee, S. P. (2023). Envisioning a Woman Scientist. Annual Review of Vision Science, 9. 10.1146/annurev-vision-111022-123844 (Original work published 2023)
McKee, S. P., Schor, C. ., Steinman, S. ., Wilson, N. ., Koch, G. ., … Davis, S. . (1992). The classification of amblyopia on the basis of visual and oculomotor performance. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society, 90, 123. (Original work published 1992)
Ghahghaei, S. ., McKee, S. P., & Verghese, P. . (2019). The upper disparity limit increases gradually with eccentricity. Journal of Vision, 19(11). (Original work published 2019)
Verghese, P. ., McKee, S. P., & Levi, D. M. (2019). Attention Deficits in Amblyopia. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29. (Original work published 2019)
Abstract
Despite normal motor control, saccadic latencies are delayed in the non-preferred eye of patients with amblyopia ( approximately 25-100ms1,2). This delay extends to manual reaction time when responding to targets with the amblyopic eye ( approximately 50-100ms1,3,4). Previous researchers have shown a positive correlation between the delay and the magnitude of visual acuity impairment in the amblyopic eye5. This delay may be due to a difference in effective stimulus strength of the targets, since reaction times to weak stimuli are prolonged, decreasing as stimulus strength increases, until reaching a plateau6. Here, we measure saccadic and manual reaction times of normal and amblyopic subjects to the abrupt appearance of a Gabor patch at 5 degrees to the left or right of fixation, while varying the contrast of the patch. Even after adjusting for differences in effective stimulus strength, we find significant delays in both saccadic and manual response times when viewing with the amblyopic eye. We speculate that this irreducible delay may be a consequence of impaired ability to rapidly direct spatial attention with the amblyopic eye. 1 Mackensen, G. (1958). Reaktionszeitmessungen bei Amblyopia. Graefes Arch Ophthalmol 159:636 - 642. 2 Ciuffreda, K.J., Kenyon R.V. Stark L. (1978). Increased saccadic latencies in amblyopic eyes. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 17: 697-702. 3 Von Noorden, G.K. (1961). Reaction time in normal and amblyopic eyes. Arch Ophthalmol 66:695-699. 4 Levi, D.M., Harwerth, R.S., and Manny, R.E. (1979). Suprathreshold spatial frequency detection and binocular interaction in strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 18:714-725. 5 Hamasaki, D.I. and Flynn, J.T. (1981). Amblyopic eyes have longer reaction times. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 21:846-853. 6 Pieron, H. (1952). The Sensations: Their Functions, Processes and Mechanisms. London: Frederick Muller Ltd. Meeting abstract presented at VSS 2015.
Notes
Gambacorta, Christina McKee, Suzanne Verghese, Preeti Levi, Dennis J Vis. 2015;15(12):652. doi: 10.1167/15.12.652.
Year of Publication
2015
Secondary Title
Journal of vision
Volume
15
Number
12
Number of Pages
652
Publication Language
eng
Citation Key
1541
Petrov, Y. ., Verghese, P. ., & McKee, S. P. (2006). Collinear facilitation is largely uncertainty reduction. Journal of Vision, 6, 170-8.
McKee, S. P., Levi, D. M., & Movshon, J. A. (2003). The pattern of visual deficits in amblyopia. Journal of Vision, 3, 380-405. (Original work published 2003)
McKee, S. P., & Taylor, D. . (2010). The precision of binocular and monocular depth judgments in natural settings. Journal of Vision, 10(10), 1-13. (Original work published 2010)
Verghese, P. ., & McKee, S. P. (2006). Motion grouping impairs speed discrimination. Vision Research, 46, 1540-6.