Daniel Palanker, James D Weiland, Boris Rosin, José-Alain Sahel
{"title":"Restoration of Sight with Electronic Retinal Prostheses.","authors":"Daniel Palanker, James D Weiland, Boris Rosin, José-Alain Sahel","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-025244","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-025244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Retinal prostheses aim at restoring sight to patients blinded by atrophy of photoreceptors using electrical stimulation of the inner retinal neurons. Bipolar cells can be targeted using subretinal implants, and their responses are then relayed to the central visual pathways via the retinal neural network, preserving many features of natural signal processing. Epiretinal implants stimulate the output retinal layer-ganglion cells-and encode visual information directly in spiking patterns.Several companies and academic groups have demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the degenerate retina can elicit visual percepts. However, most failed to consistently and safely achieve an acceptable level of performance. Recent clinical trials demonstrated that subretinal photovoltaic arrays in patients visually impaired by age-related macular degeneration can provide letter acuity matching their 100 μm pixel pitch, corresponding to 20/420 acuity. Electronic zoom enabled patients to read smaller fonts. This review describes the concepts, technologies, and clinical outcomes of current systems and provides an outlook into future developments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"125-147"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12994432/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144643874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing a Three-Dimensional World in Motion: How the Brain Computes Object Motion and Depth During Self-Motion.","authors":"Zhe-Xin Xu, Gregory C DeAngelis","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-112124","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-112124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans and other animals move their eyes, heads, and bodies to interact with their surroundings. While essential for survival, these movements produce additional sensory signals that complicate visual scene analysis. However, these self-generated visual signals offer valuable information about self-motion and the three-dimensional structure of the environment. In this review, we examine recent advances in understanding depth and motion perception during self-motion, along with the underlying neural mechanisms. We also propose a comprehensive framework that integrates various visual phenomena, including optic flow parsing, depth from motion parallax, and coordinate transformation. The studies reviewed here begin to provide a more complete picture of how the visual system carries out a set of complex computations to jointly infer object motion, self-motion, and depth.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"423-446"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12399308/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144327249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual Perception of Self-Motion.","authors":"Li Li","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-121423-013200","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-121423-013200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual perception of self-motion is essential for navigation and environmental interaction. This review examines the mechanisms by which we perceive self-motion, highlighting recent progress and significant findings. It first evaluates optic flow and its critical role in the perception of self-motion, then considers nonflow visual cues that contribute to this process. Key aspects of self-motion perception are discussed, including the perception of instantaneous direction (i.e., heading) and future trajectory (i.e., path) of self-motion. It then addresses two closely linked topics: the perception of independent object motion during self-motion and the perception of heading with independent object motion. While these processes occur concurrently, research indicates that they involve separate perceptual mechanisms. In light of recent neurophysiological findings, potential neural mechanisms underlying these two processes are proposed. Finally, it discusses how studies often conflate unreal optic flow with real optic flow, raising questions for future research to better understand how the brain processes optic flow for the perception of self-motion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"447-474"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144765665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeremy N Kay, Juan C Valdez-Lopez, Ekta M Dembla, Adam M Miltner
{"title":"Development of Retinal Astroglia.","authors":"Jeremy N Kay, Juan C Valdez-Lopez, Ekta M Dembla, Adam M Miltner","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-121423-013153","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-121423-013153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Müller cells and retinal nerve fiber layer astrocytes are the major astroglia of the mammalian retina. They have numerous important functions in adulthood for maintaining neuronal homeostasis as well as in developing retina, where they facilitate key events in the assembly of the retinal tissue. Recent years have seen substantial progress in understanding how these astroglial cells develop and how their development shapes the cells around them. We review the mechanisms underlying the formation, maturation, and spatial patterning of Müller glia and retinal astrocytes, with an emphasis on how they acquire their functional properties. We focus on developmental events that have a major impact on overall retinal integrity, such as the formation of neuro-glial junctions at the outer limiting membrane and the patterning of retinal astrocytes into a template that guides angiogenesis. Finally, we discuss examples of retinal diseases that originate in developmental defects affecting Müller cells or retinal astrocytes. These include certain classes of inherited retinal degenerations, as well as retinopathy of prematurity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"73-98"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12450049/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guiding Movements by Constantly Reconsidering One's Actions: A Kinematic Approach.","authors":"Eli Brenner, Jeroen B J Smeets","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-103554","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-103554","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People have to deal with a lot of uncertainty in their daily actions. This uncertainty arises from the limited resolution of their sensory processing and motor control, as well as from unpredictable changes in the environment. How do people ensure that their actions are successful when faced with all this uncertainty? We argue that they do so by constantly reconsidering their plan in accordance with their instantaneous evaluation of the circumstances. Doing so allows them to quickly respond to any changes in the environment. The response can be a small adjustment to an ongoing movement, but also diverting the movement if it suddenly becomes evident that moving toward a completely different target is more suitable for some reason. We present a simple kinematic model based on the idea that it is always beneficial to move smoothly to illustrate how continuously reconsidering movement plans can explain many findings in the literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"475-494"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144209975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Higher-Order Visuospatial Processing Abilities in Cerebral Visual Impairment: Behavioral Assessment and Neurophysiological Mechanisms.","authors":"Lotfi B Merabet, Claire E Manley, Zahide Pamir","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-121423-013141","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-121423-013141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cerebral visual impairment (CVI) is a brain-based visual disorder associated with early injury and maldevelopment of visual processing pathways and areas. The clinical profile of visual dysfunctions observed in CVI is broad and complex. In this review, we discuss how visuospatial processing deficits represent a core feature of this condition, focusing on evidence from behavioral studies investigating complex motion processing and visual search abilities. Results from functional and structural neuroimaging studies have also provided important insight into putative neurophysiological mechanisms associated with these functional visual impairments. We propose that higher-order visual processing dysfunctions in CVI result from an impaired interplay between bottom-up (stimulus-driven) and top-down (goal-driven) processing mechanisms that leads to characteristic challenges in interpreting and interacting with the surrounding visual environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"541-563"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavior-Specific Computations in the Vertebrate Retina.","authors":"Serena Riccitelli, Anna L Vlasits, Katrin Franke","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-102122-104700","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-102122-104700","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since Lettvin and colleagues' seminal discovery of bug detector neurons in the frog retina, understanding how retinal circuits support behavioral demands has been a central goal of visual neuroscience. Recent advances in machine learning, genetic tools, and neural recording have transformed our understanding of these circuits, particularly in the mouse retina. With a focus on mice, we examine how species-specific visual sampling strategies determine the behavioral relevance of retinal computations and review recent insights into circuits underlying reflexive behaviors, threat detection, prey capture, color vision, and night vision. We also highlight how the behavioral state itself influences retinal processing through direct neuromodulation and pupillary changes, challenging the traditional view of purely feedforward retinal processing in mammals. These findings confirm the retina as a sophisticated computational engine whose circuits have evolved to meet species-specific behavioral demands. While Lettvin's discovery of dedicated retinal circuits for innate behaviors launched the field, new tools now promise to expand our understanding of retinal contributions to naturalistic and flexible behaviors across species.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"149-173"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144054507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptual and Cognitive Foundations of Information Visualization.","authors":"Karen B Schloss","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-110009","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-110009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Information visualization is central to how humans communicate. Designers produce visualizations to represent information about the world, and observers construct interpretations based on the visual input as well as their heuristics, biases, prior knowledge, and beliefs. Several layers of processing go into the design and interpretation of visualizations. This review focuses on processes that observers use for interpretation: perceiving visual features and their interrelations, mapping those visual features onto the concepts they represent, and comprehending information about the world based on observations from visualizations. Observers are more effective at interpreting visualizations when the design is well-aligned with the way their perceptual and cognitive systems naturally construct interpretations. By understanding how these systems work, it is possible to design visualizations that play to their strengths and thereby facilitate visual communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":"11 1","pages":"303-330"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145082002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Do Visual Neural Networks Learn?","authors":"Daniella Har-Shalom, Yair Weiss","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-112903","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-112903","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over the past decade, artificial neural networks trained to classify images downloaded from the internet have achieved astounding, almost superhuman performance and have been suggested as possible models for human vision. In this article, we review experimental evidence from multiple studies elucidating the classification strategy learned by successful visual neural networks (VNNs) and how this strategy may be related to human vision as well as previous approaches to computer vision. The studies we review evaluate the performance of VNNs on carefully designed tasks that are meant to tease out the cues they use. The use of this method shows that VNNs are often fooled by image changes to which human object recognition is largely invariant (e.g., the change of a few pixels in the image or a change of the background or illumination), and, conversely, that the networks can be invariant to very large image manipulations that disrupt human performance (e.g., randomly permuting the patches of an image). Taken together, the evidence suggests that these networks have learned relatively low-level cues that are extremely effective at classifying internet images but are ineffective at classifying many other images that humans can classify effortlessly.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"591-610"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hierarchical Vector Analysis of Visual Motion Perception.","authors":"Samuel J Gershman, Johannes Bill, Jan Drugowitsch","doi":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-031344","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-vision-110323-031344","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual scenes are often populated by densely layered and complex patterns of motion. The problem of motion parsing is to break down these patterns into simpler components that are meaningful for perception and action. Psychophysical evidence suggests that the brain decomposes motion patterns into a hierarchy of relative motion vectors. Recent computational models have shed light on the algorithmic and neural basis of this parsing strategy. We review these models and the experiments that were designed to test their predictions. Zooming out, we argue that hierarchical motion perception is a tractable model system for understanding how aspects of high-level cognition such as compositionality may be implemented in neural circuitry.</p>","PeriodicalId":48658,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Vision Science","volume":" ","pages":"411-422"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}