Visual field asymmetries vary between children and adults.

ABSTRACT: Visual perception in human adults varies throughout the visual field, both across eccentricity - decreasing with distance from the center of gaze - and around isoeccentric locations - that is, with polar angle at a constant distance from the center of gaze. At isoeccentric locations, the same visual information yields better performance along the horizontal than vertical meridian (horizontal-vertical anisotropy, HVA) and along the lower than upper vertical meridian (vertical-meridian asymmetry, VMA). These perceptual polar angle asymmetries in adults have been well characterized. Poor perception at upper visual field locations would be particularly detrimental to children: in their perceptual world, given their height, many important events occur above eye level. Developmental aspects of v

SUBMITTER: Carrasco M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9278050 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature