Crowding can impact both low and high contrast visual acuity measurements.

ABSTRACT: The adverse impact of adjacent contours on letter visual acuity is known as crowding but there is conflicting evidence that foveal crowding may be reduced or disappears under low contrast conditions. Potential differences in foveal crowding with contrast on clinical measurements of visual acuity, including test-retest repeatability, were assessed. Visual acuity was measured at the fovea on adult participants with normal vision under three different contrast levels (- 90, - 10 and - 5%). Three rows of 5 letters, each row differing in size by 0.05 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR) from largest to smallest were displayed at the center of a monitor. Crowding was varied by varying the separation between horizontally adjacent letters from 100% optotype size to 50%, 20% and 10

SUBMITTER: Pluhacek F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9522725 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature