Temporal instabilities in the human eye's auto-focus mechanism: characteristics, source and impact on vision

Our eyes are never at rest. Between the microsaccadic eye movements and microfluctuations of the eye's autofocus mechanism (ocular accommodation), our visual system constantly encounters time-varying information even during a supposed "Steady state" fixation epoch. This talk will focus on the temporal instability of the eye's accommodation, as observed under physiological conditions and in a condition of binocular vision dysfunction. The talk will be divided into two parts: the first part will describe the characteristics of these instabilities and their putative source in the neural control of accommodation and the second part will describe their impact on vision and a modeling exercise that was undertaken to decode putative decision strategies to optimize vision during such epochs. https://www.lvpei.org/about-us/our-team/research/shrikant-bharadwaj