Visual Perception Flashcards
Person having low threshold …..
Has high sensitivity.
Threshold is inverse of sensitivity
Accurate way to determine threshold
Method of constant stimuli Stairstep method ( Humphery VF)
Example of force choice method
Teller acuity card
Sensitivity
Probability the test will accurately detect patients with disease
TP/TP+FN
Specifity
Probability the test will accurately detect patients without the disease
TN/TN+FP
Photometry
Property of light perception .
Luminous efficiency function defined as
V=1 brightest V=0 dim
Maximum value 555nm
Fo every watt of power of a light source, the visual system responds with 680 lumens
Scotopic lumens
507nm corresponds to 1700 lumens/watt
Abney’s law of additivity
Total number of lumens from multiple light source
Neutral density filter
Transmit all wavelength equally.
Sunglasses
Puff rich phenomenon
Pendulum appears to move in an ellipse rather than back and forth in a plan because of neutral density place on one eye .
Scotopic vs photopic
High sensitivity, low sensitivity .
Univariance
Photopigments respond to photon absorbed ( quantum) in a manner independent of the wavelength of the photon.
Photochromatic intervals
Difference between sensitivity of the Scotopic and photopic system. Zero at 650nm which both are sensitive to this wavelength .
Purkinje shift doesn’t exist in
Rods only visual system
Sole cause of dark adaptation
Photo pigment regeneration . Dowling-Rushton equation
JND
Difference between the intensity of the just perceivable spot of light compared to the intensity of the background .
Rocco’s Law
IA=C
If intensity of the stimulus increase, it can still be seen if the area is decreased as log as total number of quanta is constant
Bloch’s law
It=C
If duration of flash is increased , the stimulus can still be detected if the intensity of the stimulus is decreased.
Stiles-Crawford effect
Cone photoreceptors are most sensitive to rays of light that strike orthogonal to the surface.
Photoreceptors S M L rods
S-cyanolabe-440nm
M-chlorolabe-534nm
L-erythrolabe-564nm
Rods-rhodopsin -498nm
Protanopes
Missing L cones
Confuse red, orange, yellow and green. They see red very dim.
Inherited
Dueteranopes
Missing M cones.
Confuse red yellow orange and green
They do not have dim effect on red color
Inherited
Tritanopes
Missing S cones.
Blue-yellow defect
Usually acquired