Test-retest variability and correlations between tests of texture processing, motion processing, visual acuity, and contrast sensitivity.
OBJECTIVE
To compare the test-retest variability (reliability) and the relations among clinical tests of texture and motion processing, visual acuity for high- and low-contrast letters, and the Pelli-Robson contrast sensitivity test.


METHODS
In 20 normally sighted subjects, monocular visual acuity for letters of 96% and 11% contrast, Pelli-Robson contrast sensitivity, and motion-defined and texture-defined letter recognition thresholds were measured on each of two different days.


RESULTS
Test-retest correlation coefficients were 0.75, 0.91, 0.61, 0.90, and 0.84 and bivariate test-retest regression slopes were 1.0, 1.1, 0.8, 1.0, and 1.2 for high- and low-contrast acuity, contrast sensitivity, and motion and texture processing, respectively. The inter-test correlations with both test and retest significant were as follows: visual acuity for high-contrast letters vs. visual acuity for low-contrast letters; and recognition threshold for texture-defined letters vs. acuity for letters of both high and low contrast.


CONCLUSIONS
Test-retest variability for the tests of motion and texture processing were at least as low as for established clinical tests of high and low contrast acuity and contrast sensitivity. We conclude that these new tests offer a reliable means of obtaining clinical information which complements that provided by conventional tests with luminance-defined letters.
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Centre for Contact Lens Research, School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015350:Contrast Sensitivity / Q000502:physiology*; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012684:Sensory Thresholds; D014787:Vision Tests / Q000379:methods*; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology*