{"title":"A half century of research in amblyopia - A psychophysicist's (very) personal perspective.","authors":"Dennis M Levi","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2026.108898","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amblyopia is, aside from refractive error, the largest cause of vision loss in infants and young children. It also provides a window into the effects of atypical visual development. This article traces my decades long interest in trying to understand amblyopia from the perspective of a psychophysicist, outlining some of the key questions and findings and the factors that made my journey possible. It's been quite a journey!</p>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":" ","pages":"108898"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Vision Research","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2026.108898","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"NEUROSCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Amblyopia is, aside from refractive error, the largest cause of vision loss in infants and young children. It also provides a window into the effects of atypical visual development. This article traces my decades long interest in trying to understand amblyopia from the perspective of a psychophysicist, outlining some of the key questions and findings and the factors that made my journey possible. It's been quite a journey!
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Vision Research is a journal devoted to the functional aspects of human, vertebrate and invertebrate vision and publishes experimental and observational studies, reviews, and theoretical and computational analyses. Vision Research also publishes clinical studies relevant to normal visual function and basic research relevant to visual dysfunction or its clinical investigation. Functional aspects of vision is interpreted broadly, ranging from molecular and cellular function to perception and behavior. Detailed descriptions are encouraged but enough introductory background should be included for non-specialists. Theoretical and computational papers should give a sense of order to the facts or point to new verifiable observations. Papers dealing with questions in the history of vision science should stress the development of ideas in the field.