Adaptation to the eye's chromatic aberration measured with an adaptive optics visual simulator.

Some aspects of vision after correcting the longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA) of the eye are not yet completely understood. For instance, correcting the LCA notably alters the through focus visual acuity (VA) curve, but it does not improve the best VA obtained for the natural case. In this work, vision with corrected LCA is further investigated by using an adaptive optics visual simulator (AOVS). VA was measured continuously during 20 minutes in 5 subjects under both natural and corrected LCA conditions to explore possible adaptation effects. Low contrast VA as a function of time exhibited a consistent and significant boost of 0.19 in decimal scale after an average time of 10.9 minutes of continuous testing. For high contrast, only one subject showed a similar increase in VA. These results suggest that some LCA neural adaptation may exist, particularly for low contrast. This adaptation impacts the performance of vision under corrected LCA, and possibly prevents measurement for immediate visual benefit. The results have practical implications for the design and visual testing of optical aids, especially those correcting, or altering, the LCA.

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