Visual crowding: A fundamental limit on conscious perception and object recognition

D Whitney, DM Levi - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2011 - cell.com
Crowding, the inability to recognize objects in clutter, sets a fundamental limit on conscious
visual perception and object recognition throughout most of the visual field. Despite how …

[HTML][HTML] How the visual aspects can be crucial in reading acquisition: The intriguing case of crowding and developmental dyslexia

S Gori, A Facoetti - Journal of vision, 2015 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder (about
10% of children across cultures) characterized by severe difficulties in learning to read …

Video-game play induces plasticity in the visual system of adults with amblyopia

RW Li, C Ngo, J Nguyen, DM Levi - PLoS biology, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Abnormal visual experience during a sensitive period of development disrupts neuronal
circuitry in the visual cortex and results in abnormal spatial vision or amblyopia. Here we …

Video games as a tool to train visual skills

RL Achtman, CS Green… - Restorative neurology and …, 2008 - content.iospress.com
Purpose: Adult brain plasticity, although possible, is often difficult to elicit. Training regimens
in adults can produce specific improvements on the trained task without leading to general …

[HTML][HTML] Eye position stability in amblyopia and in normal binocular vision

EG González, AMF Wong… - … & visual science, 2012 - jov.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: We investigated whether the sensory impairments of amblyopia are associated
with a decrease in eye position stability (PS). Methods.: The positions of both eyes were …

Behavioral training as new treatment for adult amblyopia: a meta-analysis and systematic review

I Tsirlin, L Colpa, HC Goltz… - … ophthalmology & visual …, 2015 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: New behavioral treatment methods, including dichoptic training, perceptual
learning, and video gaming, have been proposed to improve visual function in adult …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of fixational eye movements in amblyopia: Limitations on fixation stability and acuity?

STL Chung, G Kumar, RW Li, DM Levi - Vision research, 2015 - Elsevier
Persons with amblyopia, especially those with strabismus, are known to exhibit abnormal
fixational eye movements. In this paper, we compared six characteristics of fixational eye …

[HTML][HTML] Making perceptual learning practical to improve visual functions

U Polat - Vision research, 2009 - Elsevier
Task-specific improvement in performance after training is well established. The finding that
learning is stimulus-specific and does not transfer well between different stimuli, between …

Evaluation of critical flicker-fusion frequency measurement methods for the investigation of visual temporal resolution

A Eisen-Enosh, N Farah, Z Burgansky-Eliash, U Polat… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Recent studies highlight the importance of the temporal domain in visual processing. Critical
Flicker-Fusion Frequency (CFF), the frequency at which a flickering light is perceived as …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of children with amblyopia by perceptual learning

U Polat, T Ma-Naim, A Spierer - Vision research, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that perceptual learning has the potential to treat amblyopia. In
this study we tested whether a recent perceptual learning technique that improved visual …