Background Glare can reduce a driver's visual performance, increasing the risk of traffic
accidents. The ability of the visual system to process spatial information can be assessed …

Surround suppression (SS) is a phenomenon that a neuron's response to visual stimuli
within the classical receptive field (cRF) is suppressed by a concurrent stimulation in the …

Previous studies have shown that short-term monocular pattern deprivation can shift
perceptual dominance in favor of the deprived eye. However, little is known about the effect …

Purpose Spectacle lenses with peripheral lenslets have shown promise for myopia control
by providing peripheral myopic defocus signals. Here, we aimed to investigate the impact of …

A reduction in visual performance is among the serious consequences of acute alcohol
intake. Contrast sensitivity (CS) is a fundamental feature of visual function. Here, we …

The external noise paradigm and perceptual template model (PTM) have successfully been
applied to characterize observer properties and mechanisms of observer state changes (eg …

Potential cognitive and physiological alterations due to space environments have been
investigated in long-term space flight and various microgravity-like conditions, for example …