Children With Amblyopia Make More Saccadic Fixations When Doing the Visual Search Task.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Individuals with amblyopia are known to have functional vision deficits (e.g., reduced reading speed) in spite of good visual acuity in the nonamblyopic eye. We studied and compared eye movements in children with and without amblyopia to examine how a visual scene is explored during visual search.

Methods

Children (six to 16 years of age) in the control group (n = 14) and cases group with anisometropic amblyopia (n = 23) participated in a visual search study, in which they looked for targets in real-world images displayed on a computer monitor. Eyelink 1000 Plus was used to track the eye movements. Three viewing conditions were randomized: dominant/fellow eye, nondominant/amblyopic eye, and binocular viewing. Visual search performance was measured by combining search

SUBMITTER: Nagarajan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9807179 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature