Detection and identification of mirror-image letter pairs in central and peripheral vision

Vision Research
K E HigginsK Knoblauch

Abstract

Reading performance is poorer in the peripheral than in the central visual field, even after size-scaling to compensate for differences in visual acuity at the different eccentricities. Since several studies have indicated that the peripheral retina is deficient with respect to spatial phase discrimination, we compared the psychometric functions for detection (D) and identification (I) of size-scaled, mirror-symmetric letters (i.e. letters differing in the phase spectra of their odd symmetric components) at three inferior field eccentricities (0, 4, and 7.5 deg) using a two-alternative, temporal, forced-choice procedure and retinal image stabilization to control retinal locus. Each subject's data were fit with Weibull functions and tested for goodness-of-fit under several hypotheses. This analysis revealed that while the psychometric functions were of constant shape across eccentricity for the respective tasks, they showed statistically significant variations in the D/I threshold ratios. However, these variations were so small that poorer reading outside the fovea is unlikely to be due to reduced letter discriminability that might occur secondary to a loss of peripheral field phase sensitivity.

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