Aerobic Exercise Effects on Ocular Dominance Plasticity with a Phase Combination Task in Human Adults

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. W...

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Main Authors: Jiawei Zhou, Alexandre Reynaud, Robert F. Hess
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:Neural Plasticity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4780876
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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-cf9c6a400d25430d804a5fef988a96f62025-08-20T03:19:45ZengWileyNeural Plasticity2090-59041687-54432017-01-01201710.1155/2017/47808764780876Aerobic Exercise Effects on Ocular Dominance Plasticity with a Phase Combination Task in Human AdultsJiawei Zhou0Alexandre Reynaud1Robert F. Hess2School of Ophthalmology and Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325003, ChinaMcGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 1A1, CanadaMcGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 1A1, CanadaSeveral 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4780876
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