Metaplasticity: Dark exposure boosts local excitability and visual plasticity in adult human cortex

SH Min, Z Wang, MT Chen, R Hu, L Gong… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An interlude of dark exposure for about 1 week is known to shift excitatory/inhibitory (E/I)
balance of the mammalian visual cortex, promoting plasticity and accelerating visual …

[HTML][HTML] The dichoptic contrast ordering test: A method for measuring the depth of binocular imbalance

AS Baldwin, MC Lorenzini, AWY Fan… - Journal of …, 2024 - iovs.arvojournals.org
In binocular vision, the relative strength of the input from the two eyes can have significant
functional impact. These inputs are typically balanced; however, in some conditions (eg …

[HTML][HTML] Is ocular dominance plasticity a special case of contrast adaptation?

RF Hess, SH Min - Vision Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The visual system can regulate its sensitivity depending on the prevailing contrast
conditions. This is known as contrast adaptation and reflects contrast gain changes at …

Issues revisited: shifts in binocular balance depend on the deprivation duration in normal and amblyopic adults

SH Min, Y Chen, N Jiang, Z He, J Zhou… - Ophthalmology and …, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Recent studies indicate that short-term monocular deprivation increases the
deprived eye's contribution to binocular fusion in both adults with normal vision and …

Measuring the reliability of binocular rivalry

M Acquafredda, İD Sarı, C Steinwurzel… - Journal of …, 2023 - jov.arvojournals.org
Binocular rivalry is a widely used tool in sensory and cognitive neuroscience to investigate
different aspects of vision and cognition. The dynamics of binocular rivalry (eg, duration of …

[HTML][HTML] Objective priming from pre-imagining inputs before binocular rivalry presentations does not predict individual differences in the subjective intensity of …

LN Bouyer, DS Schwarzkopf, BW Saurels, DH Arnold - Cognition, 2025 - Elsevier
Most people can imagine images that they experience within their mind's eye. However,
there are marked individual differences, with some people reporting that they are unable to …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced Monocular Luminance Promotes Fusion But Not Mixed Perception in Amblyopia

S Zhou, L Weng, C Zhou, J Zhou… - … Ophthalmology & Visual …, 2024 - jov.arvojournals.org
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand how monocular luminance reduction
affects binocular balance and examine whether it differentially influences fusion and mixed …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating the enhancement of visual cortex plasticity through non-invasive brain stimulation

X Chen - 2024 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Purpose:(1) To investigate the effects of various non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS)
modalities, including high-frequency transcranial random noise stimulation (hf-tRNS) …

[HTML][HTML] Transcranial random noise stimulation and exercise do not modulate ocular dominance plasticity in adults with normal vision

X Chen, K Hall, WR Bobier, B Thompson… - Journal of …, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Short-term deprivation of one eye by monocular patching causes a temporary increase in
the contribution of that eye to binocular vision when the eye patch is removed. This effect …

Measuring the impact of suppression on visual acuity in children with amblyopia using a dichoptic visual acuity chart

B Zhu, M Liao, L Liu - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose To develop a novel dichoptic visual acuity chart that measures the impact of
interocular suppression on the visual acuity of each eye when two eyes are open. Methods …