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Visualizing Visual Adaptation

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Published on: April 24, 2017

Modeling visual performance differences 'around' the visual field: A computational observer approach.

Eline R Kupers¹, Marisa Carrasco^1,2, Jonathan Winawer^1,2

¹Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America.

Plos Computational Biology

|May 25, 2019

Summary

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Visual performance varies across the visual field, with early visual factors like optics and cone density explaining only a small portion of these differences. Later visual processing stages likely account for significant performance asymmetries.

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Area of Science:

Vision science
Computational neuroscience
Psychophysics

Background:

Visual performance varies significantly with polar angle, independent of eccentricity.
These performance differences around the visual field can be substantial, comparable to changes in eccentricity.
The underlying causes for these visual performance asymmetries are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the contribution of early visual factors, specifically optical quality and cone density, to polar angle-dependent performance differences.
To quantify how much optical quality and cone density can explain observed psychophysical variations in visual tasks.
To determine if known variations in eye optics and photoreceptor density account for performance asymmetries.

Main Methods:

Developed a computational observer model using ISETBIO software.
Simulated an orientation discrimination task, modeling photon emission, human optics with eye movements, and retinal cone isomerizations.
Employed a support vector machine to classify stimulus orientation based on photon absorptions.

Main Results:

The computational model, simulating early visual processing, required extreme changes in optical defocus or cone density to match observed psychophysical contrast thresholds.
Simulated optical quality changes of ~7 diopters or cone density changes of 500% were needed to replicate a 30% increase in contrast thresholds.
These required parameter changes far exceed the actual variations observed in human eyes as a function of polar angle.

Conclusions:

Early visual factors, including optical quality and cone density, account for only a minor fraction of the observed polar angle asymmetries in visual performance.
Significant asymmetries in visual performance must originate from later stages of visual processing, such as retinal or cortical pathways.
The study highlights the need to investigate neural processing beyond the earliest visual stages to understand visual field variations.