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Revealing the benefit of eye motion for acuity under emulated cone loss.
eLife · · Journal Article · Open access
Doyle, Fong + more
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Visual acuity in healthy eyes declines nonlinearly as cone dropout increases, but eye motion preserves performance at the highest dropout level versus static stimulation.
- Why it matters: Retinal degenerative disease erodes cone mosaics, yet acuity often remains clinically normal; controlling disease stage in patients is difficult, motivating an experimental emulation in healthy subjects.
- What they did: The Oz Vision system was reprogrammed to mimic cone loss by randomly inactivating a subset of cones (“cone dropout”) and measuring acuity under static versus eye-motion conditions.
- The result: At the highest dropout, eye motion yields equivalent acuity to a static condition with nearly twice as many sampling elements, linked to extra information gathered by surviving cones during fixational sampling.
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