Binocular Integration of Perceptually Suppressed Visual Information in Amblyopia.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess whether motion information from suppressed amblyopic eyes can influence visual perception.

Methods: Participants with normal vision (n = 20) and with amblyopia (n = 20; 11 anisometropic and 9 strabismic/mixed) viewed dichoptic, orthogonal drifting gratings through a mirror stereoscope. Participants continuously reported form and motion percepts as gratings rivaled for 60 seconds.

Precise oculocentric mapping of transcranial magnetic stimulation-evoked phosphenes.

Objective: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-evoked phosphenes are oculocentric; their perceived location depends upon eye position. We investigated the accuracy and precision of TMS-evoked phosphene oculocentric mapping.

Methods: We evoked central phosphenes by stimulating early visual cortical areas with TMS, systematically examining the effect of eye position by asking participants to report the location of the evoked phosphene.

Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation reduces collinear lateral inhibition in normal peripheral vision.

Collinear flanking stimuli can reduce the detectability of a Gabor target presented in peripheral vision. This phenomenon is called collinear lateral inhibition and it may contribute to crowding in peripheral vision. Perceptual learning can reduce collinear lateral inhibition in peripheral vision, however intensive training is required.