title: Aerobic Exercise Effects on Ocular Dominance Plasticity with a Phase Combination Task in Human Adults.
abstract: Several studies have shown that short-term monocular patching can induce ocular dominance plasticity in normal adults, in which the patched eye becomes stronger in binocular viewing. There is a recent study showing that exercise enhances this plasticity effect when assessed with binocular rivalry. We address one question, is this enhancement from exercise a general effect such that it is seen for measures of binocular processing other than that revealed using binocular rivalry? Using a binocular phase combination task in which we directly measure each eye's contribution to the binocularly fused percept, we show no additional effect of exercise after short-term monocular occlusion and argue that the enhancement of ocular dominance plasticity from exercise could not be demonstrated with our approach.
authors.affiliation: School of Ophthalmology and Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325003, China; McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A1.
authors.forename: Jiawei
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4220-344X
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A1.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reynaud
authors.affiliation: McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A1.
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Hess
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D023882:Dominance, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D015349:Vision, Monocular / Q000502:physiology