Influences of accommodation and myopia on the foveal Stiles-Crawford effect

We determined the foveal Stiles-Crawford effect (SCE) as a function of up to 8D accommodation stimulus in six young emmetropes and six young myopes using a psychophysical two-channel Maxwellian system in which the threshold luminance increment of a 1 mm spot entering through variable positions in th...

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Published in:Journal of modern optics 2009-11, Vol.56 (20), p.2217-2230
Main Authors: Singh, Nisha, Atchison, David A., Kasthurirangan, Sanjeev, Guo, Huanqing
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aberrations
accommodation
defocus
Eyes & eyesight
Myopia
Optics
Retina
Stiles-Crawford effect
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Summary:We determined the foveal Stiles-Crawford effect (SCE) as a function of up to 8D accommodation stimulus in six young emmetropes and six young myopes using a psychophysical two-channel Maxwellian system in which the threshold luminance increment of a 1 mm spot entering through variable positions in the pupil was determined against a background formed by a 4 mm spot entering the pupil centrally. The SCE became steeper in both groups with increasing accommodation stimulus, but with no systematic shift of the peak. Combining the data of both groups gave significant increases in directionality of 15-20% in horizontal and vertical pupil meridians with 6D of accommodation. However, additional experiments indicated that much of this was an artefact of higher order aberrations and accommodative lag. Thus, there appears to be little changes in orientation or directionality in the SCE with accommodation stimulus levels up to 6 D, but it is possible that changes may occur at very high accommodation levels.
ISSN:0950-0340
1362-3044
DOI:10.1080/09500340902721915