Volume 8, Number 17, Abstracts 1a-91a doi:10.1167/8.17 http://journalofvision.org/8/17/ ISSN 1534-7362
Fall Vision Meeting, 2008: Abstracts
The Fall Vision Meeting Meeting was held October 24 - 26, 2008, in Rochester, New York in cooperation with the Optical Society of America. The following are the abstracts of that meeting. ARVO holds the copyright to Journal of Vision, Vol. 8, No. 17, but not to the individual abstracts in that issue. ARVO has published these abstracts as a service to the vision science community.

Between the Eyes and the Cortex: Active and Passive Filtering in the Geniculate
1
Kastner
Neural correlates of visual attention and awareness in the human LGN
2
Rees
Functional MRI of the human LGN and subcortical pathways
3
Alitto & Usrey
Spatial attention and visual processing in the lateral geniculate nucleus
4
Alonso
Receptive field dynamics and response gain in visual thalamus
Color and Motion Processing
5
White, Boehnke, Marino, Itti, & Munoz
Color Signals in the Primate Superior Colliculus
6
Nassi
Specialized circuits relaying primate parallel visual pathways to area MT
7
Nishida
Trajectory integration of color signals for motion deblurring
8
McKeefry
Color in motion revealed by motion after-effects
Contributed Talk Session: Color
9
Masuda, Hofer, Carroll, & Williams
Arrangement of the trichromatic cone mosaic in peripheral retina of a color-normal and a deutan Carrier
10
Martin, Tailby, Szmajda, Buzás, & Lee
Contribution of blue (S) cone signals to classical and extraclassical receptive fields in the lateral geniculate nucleus
11
Baraas & Sun
Comparison of local versus lateral S-cone modulation on rod thresholds
12
Salzwedel, Mauck, Kuchenbecker, Pawela, Hudetz, Hyde, Neitz, & Neitz,
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigation of the circuitry for blue-yellow color vision
13
Hong & Blake
Interocular suppression selectively affects achromatic and chromatic pathways
14
Engles, Hammond, & Wooten
Macular pigment and contrast sensitivity: Testing the acuity hypothesis
15
Falconbridge & MacLeod
Invisible gratings exposed by their effect on subsequent test gratings
16
Zhang, Bao, He, & Engel
Long-term orientation-specific contrast reduction reveals plasticity of mechanisms of contrast appearance
17
Ip, Bridge, & Parker
Spatial, but not feature attention, modulates responses to stereoscopic structure-from-motion in human visual cortex
18
Geng, Porter, Greenberg, Wolfe, Gray, Hunter, Dubra, Masella, Flannery, & Williams
Adaptive optics imaging of microscopic structures in rat retina in vivo
19
Kumar, Stevenson, & Roorda
Localized distortions within saccadic mapping contribute to the variance in saccadic landing points
20
Rossi, Carroll, & Roorda
The relationship between the cone photoreceptor mosaic and visual acuity in normal observers and blue cone monochromat carriers
Gene Therapy Approaches to Basic and Clinical Vision Sciences
21
Mauck, Garcia, Mancuso, Kuchenbecker, Salzwedel, Neitz, & Neitz
Using gene therapy to probe the circuit for color vision
22
Greenberg
Electrophysiology of channel rhodopsin in rabbit retina
23
Kolstad
Engineered photo-switch driven cortical responses in models of inherited blinding diseases
Long-term Adaptive Effects in Color Vision
24
Hammond
Compensation for macular pigment: Color appearance and sensitivity regulation
25
Werner
What the aging lens can tell us about color appearance
26
Eskew & Richters
Potential mechanisms of long-term adaptation in color vision, and a failure to find evidence for them
27
Bompas
Eye movements participate to color appearance
Makous Festschrift
28
MacLeod
Color in the neural maze
29
Schnapf
Electrical networks in mammalian cone photoreceptors
30
Geisler
Natural systems analysis
31
Bex
Contrast perception in natural scenes
Measuring Population Activity in the Visual Cortex
32
Kohn
Neural correlation in V1 and its effect on coding
33
Wu, Tiesinga, Tucker, Mitroff, & Fitzpatrick
Distortions in perceived direction of motion predicted by population response dynamics in primary visual cortex
34
Gardner, Sun, Tanaka, Heeger, and Cheng
Inferring population responses in human visual cortex with classification analysis
35
Dumoulin, Amano, & Wandell
Quantitative population receptive field estimates in human visual cortex
Retinopathy and Visual Dysfunction
36
Fitzke
Retinal Imaging and functional studies in the living human eye to reveal fine structural changes that accompany loss of visual sensitivity
37
Wang
Early detection/assessment/monitoring of vision loss in AMD and Stargardt disease
38
Birch
The role of electrophysiology in detecting and following retinal dystrophies
39
Coffey
Animal models of ARMD and RPE transplant in human patients
Poster Abstracts
40
Aaen-Stockdale, Thompson, Huang, & Hess
A low-level explanation of paradoxical motion percepts
41
Ahumada
Cortical under-sampling and crowding
42
Appelbaum, Meyerhoff, Chen, & Woldorff,
Automaticity and information integration in the human brain: EEG insights from SOA variants of the Stroop and reverse Stroop tasks
43
Gupta, Atchison, Zele, & Guo
The effect of optical aberrations on the colour appearance of small lights
44
Baker, Nerger, & Volbrecht
Rod influence on hue perception – it’s about time
45
Barbur, Rodríguez-Carmona, & Harlow
Factors that cause variability in chromatic sensitivity in normal colour vision and in congenital deficiency
46
Bosworth & Dobkins
Chromatic (Red/Green) and luminance contrast sensitivity in fullterm and “Late” preterm infants: Effects of early visual experience on magnocellular and parvocellular pathway processing
47
Buchholz, Hikita, Radeke, Blashke, Johnson, & Clegg
Stem cell derived retinal pigment Epithelium for the treatment of age-related Macular degeneration
48
Campbell, Bunghardt, Kisilak, and Irving
Diurnal rhythms of refractive error components in normal chick
49
Coletta, Raghuram, Rondon, & Johnson
Foveal and perifoveal thickness in myopia measured with a Fourier-Domain OCT
50
Dimova, & Denham
A neurally plausible model of the dynamics of motion integration in smooth eye pursuit based on recursive Bayesian estimation
51
Dorr, Ludwig, & Barth
Real-time gaze-contingent spatio-temporal filtering for gaze guidance
52
Dubis, Rha, Tanna, Stepien, & Carroll
Examining foveal cone packing using SD-OCT – implications for foveal development
53
Elze, Song, & Jost
Visual masking as interaction of prediction and certainty
54
Garcia-Suarez, Ruppertsberg, & Bloj
Visual sensitivity to isoluminant chromatic gradients with different spatial profiles
55
Gavrik
The constant color perception at various illuminations: Could the own cheek and nose permanently occurring on the periphery of observer’s visual field provide the visual system with the necessary standard of spectral reflectance?
56
Glasser & Tadin
Lower temporal limit for generation of the motion after-effect
57
Herbert, Stefano, Conley, & Pelz
Re-examining the preferential detection of negative stimuli: Better performance for positive faces
58
Hibbeler & Olzak
Displaying components as figure and ground removes masking effects in hyperacuity discriminations
59
Hunter, Morgan, Sentiff, Merigan, & Williams
Photochemically induced autofluorescence decrease and retinal pigment Epithelial damage
60
Imazumi & Nakauchi
Blur adaptation to spatial frequency structure
61
Irsch, Gramatikov, Wu, & Guyton
Polarization modulation improves retinal birefringence scanning
62
Johnson & Coletta
Transverse magnification in an Optovue Fourier-Domain OCT instrument
63
Jong & Panta
Repeatability and reproducibility of alternative measures of retinal structure using OCT
64
Kisilak, Bunghardt, Ball, Irving,& Campbell
Imaging of photoreceptors during development in the chick in order to test models of eye growth
65
Kubota
Computational models for self-organization of retinal neurons in Euclidean space
66
Kuchenbecker, Salzwedel, Trujillo, Neitz, & Neitz
The spectral ON-OFF ERG and its use for studying blue-yellow color vision circuitry
67
Lee, Sun, Cao, & Zaidi
Does static contrast enhance contrast sensitivity?
68
Maehara, Huang, & Hess
The effect of flankers on TvC functions in binocular, monocular, and dichoptic presentations
69
Mancuso, Hauswirth, Connor, Kuchenbecker, Mauck, Neitz, & Neitz
Analysis of a primate cone mosaic following targeted gene transfer using recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors
70
Morris, Liu, Cropper, Forte, & Mattingley
Psychophysical summation of visual motion across eye movements reflects decision processes, not sensory integration
71
Mullen, Leung, & Baxter
Changes in S-cone increment and decrement sensitivity as a function of age and eccentricity
72
Olzak & Hibbeler
Contrast gain control and summing circuit bandwidths in fine spatial frequency discriminations
73
Lauva
Neural interaction of retinal aftereffects and contrast adaptation in perception of gabor gratings
74
Parry & Robson
Optimization of large tritan stimuli by correcting for individual variations in spectral sensitivity and macular pigment distribution
75
Raphael & MacLeod
Minimally distinct borders in mesopic vision
76
Renzi, Hammond, & Wooten
Age-related changes in the temporal modulation transfer function, assessed foveally and parafoveally
77
Roberson, Neitz, & Neitz
UV opsin knock-out mouse for studying L opsin mutants without UV opsin coexpression
78
Sabesan & Yoon
Neural compensation to asymmetric optical blur to enhance visual performance in keratoconic eyes
79
Saika, Nakagawa, Hirohara, Fujikado, & Mihashi
The Keratoconus screening using logistic regression analysis of Corneal topography
80
Sakano & Ando
Both head motion and stereo viewing enhance perceived glossiness
81
Sato & Uchikawa
Effects of spatial attention on disparity thresholds in detecting dual targets in the central and peripheral visual field
82
Sawides, Dorronsoro, Gambra, & Marcos
Visual performance after adaptive-optics correction of ocular aberrations: visual acuity, subjective quality preference of natural images and recognition of faces and facial expressions
83
Shitanoki & Tagaya
Reduction of astigmatism in progressive addition lenses by employment of graded-index materials
84
Sun & Baraas
Comparison of influences of local and lateral cone modulation on rod thresholds
85
Tanna, Ayub, Rha, Tait, Dubis, Stepien, & Carroll
Evaluation of a broadband OCT light source for retinal layer segmentation and image quality
86
Tokuda
Using saccadic eye movements to measure mental workload
87
Turski
Projective fourier analysis and erisaccadic perception
88
Wang & Tyo
Color representation in the Tristimulus space
89
Wagge & Olzak
Contributions of contrast gain and response gain in pattern masking
90
Wagner-Schuman, Neitz, & Neitz
Slowing the progression of myopia in children
91
Yellott
Mitigating visual defocus by prefiltering the object spectrum





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