A mechanistic account of visual discomfort

O Penacchio, X Otazu, AJ Wilkins… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Much of the neural machinery of the early visual cortex, from the extraction of local
orientations to contextual modulations through lateral interactions, is thought to have …

[HTML][HTML] Visual discomfort and chromatic flickers

S Yoshimoto, H Iizuka, T Takeuchi - Vision Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Flickering patterns that shift in chromaticity can be uncomfortable and may trigger epileptic
seizures, though the underlying factors are not fully understood. In the spatial domain …

Mind the Visual Discomfort: Assessing Event-Related Potentials as Indicators for Visual Strain in Head-Mounted Displays

F Chiossi, Y Weiss, T Steinbrecher… - … Symposium on Mixed …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When using Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs), users may not always notice or report visual
discomfort by blurred vision through unadjusted lenses, motion sickness, and increased eye …

Facial ambiguity and perception: How face-likeness affects breaking time in continuous flash suppression

MM Martinsen, K Yoshino, Y Kinzuka, F Sato… - Journal of …, 2024 - jov.arvojournals.org
Previous studies have elucidated that humans can implicitly process faces faster than they
process objects. However, the mechanism through which the brain unconsciously processes …

Subjective sensory sensitivities as a transdiagnostic experience: characterisation, impact, and the development of the Cardiff Hypersensitivity Scale

AJ Price - 2023 - orca.cardiff.ac.uk
Subjective sensory sensitivity refers to first person reports of experiencing sensory
information as aversive, distracting, or overwhelming. Precursors to the experience occur …