title: Vision is adapted to the natural level of blur present in the retinal image.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The image formed by the eye's optics is inherently blurred by aberrations specific to an individual's eyes. We examined how visual coding is adapted to the optical quality of the eye.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We assessed the relationship between perceived blur and the retinal image blur resulting from high order aberrations in an individual's optics. Observers judged perceptual blur in a psychophysical two-alternative forced choice paradigm, on stimuli viewed through perfectly corrected optics (using a deformable mirror to compensate for the individual's aberrations). Realistic blur of different amounts and forms was computer simulated using real aberrations from a population. The blur levels perceived as best focused were close to the levels predicted by an individual's high order aberrations over a wide range of blur magnitudes, and were systematically biased when observers were instead adapted to the blur reproduced from a different observer's eye.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results provide strong evidence that spatial vision is calibrated for the specific blur levels present in each individual's retinal image and that this adaptation at least partly reflects how spatial sensitivity is normalized in the neural coding of blur.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Óptica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain. lucie@io.cfmac.csic.es
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sawides
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: de Gracia
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dorronsoro
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Webster
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marcos
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D006801:Humans; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular
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