2010/06/06 by Emanuel Gluskin, Gluskin, Emanuel, Yehuda Ben‐Shimol +6
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors #FOS: Physical sciences #Medical Physics (physics.med-ph) #Neuroscience and Neural Engineering #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #Retinal Development and Disorders #physics.bio-ph #physics.med-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1006.1093
This is a slightly improved AL10173E (Phys Rev E) for which an encouraging report had been obtained but the research was not continued. In our system-theory approach, we assume that the autists' problem with the light flickering is associated with saccadic eye movement, while in normal humans the brain can control the phase, which decreases the stroboscopic effect. 31 pages, 6 figures
openalex publication_date 2010/06/06 · arxiv created 2010/06/08 · arxiv updated 2010/06/09 · openalex created_date 2022/09/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The flickering of the light of fluorescent lamps (FL), whose basic frequency,\n100 Hz, is close to that of the micro-saccadic (the eye-muscles' tremor\ncomponent) eye movement, is a severe problem for autists (autistic humans), a\nproblem for newborn babies, for people after some traumatic accidents, and for\nsome 10% of otherwise absolutely normal humans. Taking the line of a\n"system-terms" discussion of the vision-disturbance problem, the present work\nprovides a constructive framework for investigating the problem. Using the\nresults of light intensity measurements and some simple analytical models for\nthe instantaneous light-intensity function, and analyzing the role of the\ncoincidence (closeness) of the frequencies of the ripple of and the micro\nsaccades, we suggest a block-diagram for the biological vision control system.\nWe also show that a singularity of the waveform of, which is typical for most\nFL, may be important for brain control of the eye tremor. The latter conclusion\nis supported by a simulation of the image intensity on retina.\n