Accommodation during visual development

T. Rowan Candy

doi:10.1167/10.15.33

Abstract

Abnormal visual experience has been shown to lead to abnormal development of the visual system. Visual experience, as defined by retinal image quality, is highly dependent on accommodative performance in hyperopic infants. This presentation will review recent studies of the accommodative performance of infants and young children, in the context of the interactions between their accommodation and vergence systems, the apparently conflicting accommodative and vergence demands during development, and the development of strabismus and amblyopia.

Acknowledgments

Supported by R01 EY 014460, P30 EY 19008 & a Fight For Sight Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Shrikant Bharadwaj.

References

Bharadwaj, S. R., Candy, T. R.(2008). Cues for the control of ocular accommodation and vergence during postnatal human development. Journal of Vision, 8(16):14, 11–16. [CrossRef]

Bharadwaj, S. R., Candy, T. R.(2009). Accommodative and vergence responses to conflicting blur and disparity stimuli during development. Journal of Vision, 9(11):4, 1–18. [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Candy, T. R., Bharadwaj, S. R.(2007). The stability of steady state accommodation in human infants. Journal of Vision, 7(11):4, 1–16. [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Candy, T. R., Wang, J., Ravikumar, S.(2009). Retinal image quality and postnatal visual experience during infancy. Optometry & Vision Science, 86(6), E556–571.

Tondel, G. M., Candy, T. R.(2008). Accommodation and vergence latencies in human infants. Vision Research, 48(4), 564–576.

Wang, J., Candy, T. R.(2010). The sensitivity of the 2- to 4-month-old human infant accommodation system. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 51(6), 3309–3317.

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