The relationship between visual resolution and cone spacing in the human fovea

Visual resolution decreases rapidly outside the foveal center. The anatomical and physiological basis for this reduction is unclear. We used simultaneous adaptive optics imaging and psychophysical testing to measure cone spacing and resolution across the fovea, and show resolution is limited by cone...

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Autores principales: Rossi, Ethan A., Roorda, Austin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20023654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2465
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description Visual resolution decreases rapidly outside the foveal center. The anatomical and physiological basis for this reduction is unclear. We used simultaneous adaptive optics imaging and psychophysical testing to measure cone spacing and resolution across the fovea, and show resolution is limited by cone spacing only at the foveal center. Immediately outside the center, resolution is worse than cone spacing predicts and better matches the sampling limit of midget retinal ganglion cells.
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spelling pubmed-28226592010-08-01 The relationship between visual resolution and cone spacing in the human fovea Rossi, Ethan A. Roorda, Austin Nat Neurosci Article Visual resolution decreases rapidly outside the foveal center. The anatomical and physiological basis for this reduction is unclear. We used simultaneous adaptive optics imaging and psychophysical testing to measure cone spacing and resolution across the fovea, and show resolution is limited by cone spacing only at the foveal center. Immediately outside the center, resolution is worse than cone spacing predicts and better matches the sampling limit of midget retinal ganglion cells. 2009-12-20 2010-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2822659/ /pubmed/20023654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2465 Text en http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms
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