Dot Motion Perception in Young Adult Emmetropes and Myopes.

Significance: Central motion perception, as assessed by minimum displacement detection, was reduced in highly myopic eyes. Peripheral motion detection may be influenced by myopia, particularly in the inferior-nasal retina.Purpose: Motion discrimination is a complex visual task processed mainly via t...

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Published in:Optometry & Vision Science Vol. 95; no. 6; pp. 498 - 505
Main Authors: Kuo, Hui-Ying, Atchison, David A., Schmid, Katrina Leanne
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2018
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          Kuo, Hui-Ying
          Atchison, David A.
          Schmid, Katrina Leanne
        affil: School of Optometry & Vision Science, Faculty of Health, and Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
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          Visual Acuity Physiology
          Myopia Physiopathology
          Visual Perception Physiology
          Vision Tests
          Female
          Young Adult
          Tomography, Optical Coherence
          Adult
          Visual Fields Physiology
          Adolescence
          Refraction, Ocular
          Male
          Retina
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: Significance: Central motion perception, as assessed by minimum displacement detection, was reduced in highly myopic eyes. Peripheral motion detection may be influenced by myopia, particularly in the inferior-nasal retina.Purpose: Motion discrimination is a complex visual task processed mainly via the magnocellular pathway. We investigated whether it is affected in myopia.Methods: Ninety young adults aged 18 to 28 years participated: 30 emmetropes (spherical equivalent refractions +1.00 to -0.50 diopters [D]), 30 low myopes -1.00 to -4.75 D) and 30 higher myopes (<-5 D). Random dot patterns were used to measure motion perception thresholds for minimum displacement (Dmin), maximum displacement (Dmax), and motion coherence tasks. Each task was performed centrally and at four oblique peripheral visual field locations (at 3.65 and 12 degrees for Dmin and Dmax tasks, respectively). Macular retinal thickness was measured with optical coherence tomography.Results: The central Dmin task was correlated significantly with refraction (r = -0.303, P = .004) and axial length (r = +0.224, P = .04), and the superior-temporal field Dmin task was correlated significantly with axial length (r = 0.230, P = .04). Higher myopes had poorer performance than emmetropes by 25% (higher values). For the Dmin peripheral task and for Dmax and coherence tasks at both central and peripheral locations, there were no significant correlations with refraction or axial length. At three of four positions, the peripheral Dmin task was correlated significantly with thickness in the corresponding retinal region: superior-temporal Dmin (Pearson r = -0.357, P < .001), inferior-nasal Dmin (r = -0.237, P = .03) and inferior-temporal Dmin (r = -0.233, P = .03).Conclusions: Central motion perception, as assessed by minimum displacement detection, was reduced by 25% in highly myopic eyes. Peripheral motion detection may be influenced by myopia, particularly in the inferior-nasal retina. Retinal stretching due to axial elongation may be linked to reduced performance in higher myopes.
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