Amblyopia: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Amblyopia: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Figure 2.17 The effect of positional noise on contour detection for the normal (unfilled symbols) and fellow amblyopic eye (filled symbols) for contours of varying curvature (from Hess et aI., 1997).

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anomalous lateral interactions, or do anomalous lateral interactions result in positional uncertainty?

A POSSIBLE SNAKE The major problem in amblyopia is positional uncertainty, yet we know so little about how we encode position - at least for well-separated elements