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Dependence of the Stereokinetic Effect on the Rotational Speed and Eccentricity of the Test Image in Children with Partial Optic Atrophy

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We studied the influence of the rotational speed and eccentricity of the ring image on the severity of the stereokinetic effect (SE) in a group of 36 children aged 8 to 16 years with partial optic atrophy and in the control group of 44 age-matched children with a normal fundus. Four variants of the ring image with the eccentricity of 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 or 0.8 were used as a test image. The rotational speed of the ring image was 2, 10, 30, 60 or 90 rpm. It was found that the stereokinetic effect was absent in the majority of children (63.9%) with optic atrophy at a combination of eccentricity of 0.2 and a rotational speed of 2 rpm, in contrast to the control group, where the stereokinetic effect was only absent in 9.1% of children under the same conditions of stimulus presentation. The stereokinetic effect was observed with all eccentricities when the speed of rotation of the test image was 30–90 rpm in children with optic atrophy and 10–90 rpm in children from the control group. The number of children with alternate perception of the virtual cone and the virtual funnel was significantly higher in the control group than in the group of children with optic atrophy at all the test image eccentricities and rotational speeds used. The binocular figure size estimates were equal to the monocular estimates in the group of children with optic atrophy for all the image eccentricities and rotation speeds in contrast to the control group with a general tendency for the virtual cone size estimate to increase under the monocular conditions of observation. An increase in the test image rotation speed from 2 to 60 rpm was accompanied by an increase in the size of a virtual figure and a significant decrease in the duration of alternate dominance of virtual cone and virtual funnel perception in both groups of subjects with all the eccentricities used. The difference between the results obtained in the group of children with POA and in the control group may be explained by reduction of afferent visual information flow. These differences are partially offset by increased speed and increased eccentricity of the test image.

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Rychkova, S.I., Sandimirov, R.I. & Kosobutskaya, L.V. Dependence of the Stereokinetic Effect on the Rotational Speed and Eccentricity of the Test Image in Children with Partial Optic Atrophy. Hum Physiol 45, 356–363 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119719040145

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