Lecture 4 Flashcards
better performance of visual functions with two eyes than monocular performance; benefit of having 2 eyes
binocular summation
Possible types of binocular summation:
Facilitation Complete summation Partial summation No summation Inhibition
Where does normal binocular observer fall in types of binocular summation?
partial summation
Both > L + R
Facilitation
Both= L + R
Complete Summation
Both < L + R, but > L or R
partial summation
Both=L or Both= R
No Summation
Both < L or Both < R
Inhibition
– Simply by adding one more detector, you have 40% better chance of detecting a stimulus than one detector (explained by statistics)
– No interaction between eye
• Probability summation
– When stimuli are synchronous in space and time, binocular vision is stimulated
– Much better chance of detection than predicted by statistics
• Neuronal summation
how sensitive we are to flickering light (temporal testing)
critical flicker fusion frequency (CFF)
out of phase result for binocular percept with summation
cancelled out
monocular cff
49.8
binocular cff
- something
how do we combine info from 2 eyes?
- probability summation
- neuronal summation
Some Visual Functions Showing Binocular Summation
Threshold light detection
CFF (Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency): goes up
Contrast threshold: goes down (better contrast sensitivity)
Resolution threshold : goes down (better VA)
Brightness
Interocular transfer
CSF for high spatial frequency corresponds to what clinical test result?
VA
Monocular CSF at high spatial frequency
we are more sensitive to different contrasts
improvement of binocular compared to monocular for CSF in high and low sf
40% improvement uniformly
With monocular blur, the binocular contrast sensitivity declines with what?
increasing blur
WHAT HAPPENS with significan monocular blur?
inhibition
When more than +1.50 D to +2.00 D blur, binocular sensitivity is worse than what?
monocular
Why are some patients fit with monovision unable to accept more than a 1.50- 2.00 diopters difference in focus between the two eyes?
one eye is so blurred, that it makes them uncomfortable.
why is binocular cff improvement so small compared to monocular cff?
we are testing one point. we are trying to find threshold at one point.
When is there better sensitivity regarding CFF?
when stimuli are in phase
low temporal frequency (ex: 5 Hz) will result in what?
facilitation
middle temporal frequency results in what?
complete summation