AB061. Changes in eye movement strategies during a discrimination task in the presence of artificial central scotomas
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: The goal of the present research was to study whether the presence of an artificial central scotoma resulted in changes in eye movement strategies over the course of multiple days of training. We wished to determine how central vision loss, similar to age macular degeneration (AMD), affects eye movements, specifically the foveal-target alignment. We also wished to determine if an invisible compared to a visible scotoma led to delayed or different strategies, given that AMD patients are mostly unaware of their condition as they are unconscious of the presence of their central scotoma. Methods: Eleven healthy participants (6 females, M =22.18, SD =1.94) were asked to perform a discrimination task, where they responded whether the orientation of an eccentric target (Gabor, 10 deg to the left of fixation) was clockwise or counter-clockwise. The target was surrounded by four distractor Gabors, thus making discrimination more difficult using peripheral vision. The target’s orientation varied 10° clockwise to 10° counter-clockwise in 1° intervals. Each participant performed four blocks of 75 trials each per day over 10 days, the first day being a baseline as the participant were tested without any scotoma. We measured discrimination performance and precision (position of the eye in X and Y). Results: Results showed similar patterns of discrimination reaction time and accuracy as well as changes to eye position for both the visible and the invisible scotoma conditions. Discrimination time significantly decreased on the last day of training compared to the first (first day M =2,965 ms, last day M =1,567 ms, P<0.05), while accuracy increased though not significantly so (first day =87.4%, last day =93.15%). There was no change in the final horizontal (X) position of first saccade relative to the target (first =−0.4°, last =−0.13°) but there was a significant upward shift (first =0.08° vs. last =0.58°, P<0.05); participants shifted their eye position on the Y axis so that they were looking at a point slightly above the target. Conclusions: These findings suggest that the presence of an artificial central scotoma induces both changes in saccade planning mechanisms as well as changes in peripheral visual function, possibly attentional, resulting in improved discrimination performance. This study allows a better comprehension of eye movement and attentional strategies during central visual loss and provides insight into possible rehabilitation strategies.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".