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Simulated central vision loss does not impair implicit location probability learning when participants search through simple displays. Atten Percept Psychophys 2021; 84:1901-1912. [PMID: 34921336 PMCID: PMC8682040 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-021-02416-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Central vision loss disrupts voluntary shifts of spatial attention during visual search. Recently, we reported that a simulated scotoma impaired learned spatial attention towards regions likely to contain search targets. In that task, search items were overlaid on natural scenes. Because natural scenes can induce explicit awareness of learned biases leading to voluntary shifts of attention, here we used a search display with a blank background less likely to induce awareness of target location probabilities. Participants searched both with and without a simulated central scotoma: a training phase contained targets more often in one screen quadrant and a testing phase contained targets equally often in all quadrants. In Experiment 1, training used no scotoma, while testing alternated between blocks of scotoma and no-scotoma search. Experiment 2 training included the scotoma and testing again alternated between scotoma and no-scotoma search. Response times and saccadic behaviors in both experiments showed attentional biases towards the high-probability target quadrant during scotoma and no-scotoma search. Whereas simulated central vision loss impairs learned spatial attention in the context of natural scenes, our results show that this may not arise from impairments to the basic mechanisms of attentional learning indexed by visual search tasks without scenes.
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Thibaut M, Tran T, Szaffarczyk S, Boucart M. Impact of age‐related macular degeneration on object searches in realistic panoramic scenes. Clin Exp Optom 2021; 101:372-379. [DOI: 10.1111/cxo.12644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2017] [Revised: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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- SCALab, University of Lille, CNRS, Lille, France,
- Department of Ophthalmology, Lille Group Hospitals, Lille Catholic University, Lille, France,
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Jones PR, Tigchelaar I, Demaria G, Wilson I, Bi W, Taylor DJ, Crabb DP. Refinement and preliminary evaluation of two tablet-based tests of real-world visual function. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2019; 40:35-46. [PMID: 31879994 PMCID: PMC7028122 DOI: 10.1111/opo.12658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Purpose To describe, refine, evaluate, and provide normative control data for two freely available tablet‐based tests of real‐world visual function, using a cohort of young, normally‐sighted adults. Methods Fifty young (18–40 years), normally‐sighted adults completed tablet‐based assessments of (1) face discrimination and (2) visual search. Each test was performed twice, to assess test‐retest repeatability. Post‐hoc analyses were performed to determine the number of trials required to obtain stable estimates of performance. Distributions were fitted to the normative data to determine the 99% population‐boundary for normally sighted observers. Participants were also asked to rate their comprehension of each test. Results Both tests provided stable estimates in around 20 trials (~1–4 min), with only a further reduction of 14%–17% in the 95% Coefficient of Repeatability (CoR95) when an additional 40 trials were included. When using only ~20 trials: median durations for the first run of each test were 191 s (Faces) and 51 s (Search); test‐retest CoR95 were 0.27 d (Faces) and 0.84 s (Search); and normative 99% population‐limits were 3.50 d (Faces) and 3.1 s (Search). No participants exhibited any difficulties completing either test (100% completion rate), and ratings of task‐understanding were high (Faces: 9.6 out of 10; Search: 9.7 out of 10). Conclusions This preliminary assessment indicated that both tablet‐based tests are able to provide simple, quick, and easy‐to‐administer measures of real‐world visual function in normally‐sighted young adults. Further work is required to assess their accuracy and utility in older people and individuals with visual impairment. Potential applications are discussed, including their use in clinic waiting rooms, and as an objective complement to Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).
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- Pete R Jones
- Division of Optometry and Visual Science, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.,Ocusweep, Turku, Finland.,Doctoral Program in Clinical Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.,Graduate School of Medical Sciences (Research School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Oxford Eye Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Optometry and Visual Science, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, London, UK
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- Division of Optometry and Visual Science, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, London, UK
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- Division of Optometry and Visual Science, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, London, UK
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Thibaut M, Boucart M, Tran THC. Object search in neovascular age-related macular degeneration: the crowding effect. Clin Exp Optom 2019; 103:648-655. [PMID: 31698519 DOI: 10.1111/cxo.12982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 09/10/2019] [Accepted: 09/13/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Visual search, an activity that relies on central vision, is frequent in daily life. This study investigates the effect of spacing between items in an object search task in participants with central vision loss. METHODS Patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), age-matched controls, and young controls were included. The stimuli were displays of four, six and nine objects randomly presented in a 'crowded' (spacing 1.5°) or 'uncrowded' (spacing 6°) condition. For each of 96 trials, participants were asked to search for a predefined target that remained on the screen until the response was recorded. Accuracy, search time, and eye movements (number of fixations and scan path ratio) were recorded. RESULTS Compared to older controls, accuracy decreased by 31 per cent and search time increased by 61 per cent in AMD participants. Ageing also affected performance with a lower accuracy by 13.5 per cent and longer search times by 46 per cent in older compared to younger controls. Increasing the spacing between elements increased accuracy by 21 per cent in AMD participants but it had no effect in older and younger controls. Performance was not related to visual acuity or to duration of neovascular AMD, but search time was correlated to the lesion size in the 'crowded' condition. CONCLUSIONS Object search is ubiquitous in daily life activities. When visual acuity is irrevocably reduced, increasing the spacing between elements can reliably improve object search performance in patients.
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- Miguel Thibaut
- SCALab, University of Lille, National Center for Scientific Research, Lille, France
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- SCALab, University of Lille, National Center for Scientific Research, Lille, France
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- Ophthalmology Department, Lille Catholic Hospitals, Catholic University of Lille, Lille, France
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Beyond intraocular pressure: Optimizing patient-reported outcomes in glaucoma. Prog Retin Eye Res 2019; 76:100801. [PMID: 31676347 DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2019.100801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Revised: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Glaucoma, an irreversible blinding condition affecting 3-4% adults aged above 40 years worldwide, is set to increase with a rapidly aging global population. Raised intraocular pressure (IOP) is a major risk factor for glaucoma where the treatment paradigm is focused on managing IOP using medications, laser, or surgery regimens. However, notwithstanding IOP and other clinical parameters, patient-reported outcomes, including daily functioning, emotional well-being, symptoms, mobility, and social life, remain the foremost concerns for people being treated for glaucoma. These outcomes are measured using objective patient-centered outcome measures (PCOMs) and subjective patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). Studies using PCOMs have shown that people with glaucoma have several mobility, navigational and coordination challenges; reading and face recognition deficits; and are slower in adapting to multiple real-world situations when compared to healthy controls. Similarly, studies have consistently demonstrated, using PROMs, that glaucoma substantially and negatively impacts on peoples' self-reported visual functioning, mobility, independence, emotional well-being, self-image, and confidence in healthcare, compared to healthy individuals, particularly in those with late-stage disease undergoing a heavy treatment regimen. The patient-centred effectiveness of current glaucoma treatment paradigms is equivocal due to a lack of well-designed randomized controlled trials; short post-treatment follow-up periods; an inappropriate selection or availability of PROMs; and/or an insensitivity of currently available PROMs to monitor changes especially in patients with newly diagnosed early-stage glaucoma. We provide a comprehensive, albeit non-systematic, critique of the psychometric properties, limitations, and recent advances of currently available glaucoma-specific PCOMs and PROMs. Finally, we propose that item banking and computerized adaptive testing methods can address the multiple limitations of paper-pencil PROMs; customize their administration; and have the potential to improve healthcare outcomes for people with glaucoma.
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Caldani S, Chatard H, Wiener-Vacher S, Bucci MP. Visual searching capabilities in Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) subjects. APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY-ADULT 2019; 28:619-626. [PMID: 31625771 DOI: 10.1080/23279095.2019.1678158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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A decrease in visual perception with age was observed due to a decline in neurocognitive and visual functions. Previous studies showed that aging affects visual processes and contextual perceptual phenomena. The aim of our study was to explore the effect of age as well as the effect of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) on the visual searching task. Three groups of twenty-one subjects were recruited: AMD subjects (mean age 72.29 ± 4.83 years); healthy elderly (72.55 ± 4.95); and young healthy volunteers (28.38 ± 2.77). Visual perception functions were evaluated with a modified barrage test developed by Metrisquare. Our results showed that AMD patients and elderly do not differ in terms of time, omissions and errors. However both were slower to perform the visual perception tests when compared with young adults. Regarding the number of errors and omissions, we only found significant differences between the young and the AMD subjects, the later making more omissions and errors respect to young healthy volunteers. Despite AMD patients made more errors likely because to their poor fixation capability, we could conclude that AMD patients, as well as healthy elderly subjects, could compensate their altered visual strategies by taking more time to perform the visual searching tasks, probably due to cortical plasticity.HighlightsAMD patients and healthy elderly subjects do not differ in terms of time, omissions and errors.AMD patients, as well as healthy elderly subjects could compensate their visual difficulties by taking more time to perform the visual searching tasks when compared to young healthy volunteers. It is probably due to cortical plasticity.Note, however that AMD patients could make more errors when compared to young healthy volunteers, probably due to their poor fixation capability.The number of omissions and errors not different in healthy young and in elderly subjects.
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- Simona Caldani
- UMR 1141 Inserm - Université de Paris, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France.,EFEE - Center for Functional Exploration of Balance in Children, ENT Departement, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France
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- UMR 1141 Inserm - Université de Paris, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France.,EFEE - Center for Functional Exploration of Balance in Children, ENT Departement, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France
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- UMR 1141 Inserm - Université de Paris, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France.,EFEE - Center for Functional Exploration of Balance in Children, ENT Departement, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France
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- UMR 1141 Inserm - Université de Paris, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France.,EFEE - Center for Functional Exploration of Balance in Children, ENT Departement, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France
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