Paper Published in Vision Research: Amblyopic Acuity and Scrambled Letters

Our paper is now published (open access) in Vision Research: The amblyopic acuity deficit: Identification of letters distorted by spatial scrambling algorithms.

This work appeared in a special issue on Advances in Amblyopia Research. Using bandpass letters affected by two types of spatially scrambling (cortical and subcortical) and conventional bandpass noise, we compared letter identification efficiency between the amblyopic and fellow eye. We find that scrambling-based stimuli reveal functionally distinct deficits beyond those captured by contrast noise masking, and that the pattern of letter mistakes under scrambling is correlated with the severity of amblyopia. Authors: Raffles Xingqi Zhu, Robert F. Hess, and Alex S. Baldwin.