Purpose To describe a case of orbital apex syndrome as a result of isolated bacterial sinusitis. Observations A 63-year-old woman presented with an orbital apex syndrome from isolated bacterial sinusitis with rapidly declining visual acuity to no light perception. We compared our case with 6 similar cases of severe vision loss from isolated bacterial sinusitis. In contrast to previously publi...

The rapid and detailed recognition of human action from point-light displays is a remarkable ability and very robust against masking by motion signals. However, recognition of biological motion is strongly impaired when the typical point lights are replaced by pictures of complex objects. In a reaction time task and a detection in noise task, we asked subjects to decide if the walking direction...

This investigation explores the color appearance changes resulting from a contmuously presented adapting field. In every experiment. an incremental mixture of red and green monochromatic lights was superimposed on top of a steady red background field. On each experimental trial the intensities of the red background and the red increment were fixed: the subject adjusted the intensit! of the gree...

A 47-year-old female had noticed diminished visual acuity in both eyes 2 months previously. The patient had vision loss (no light perception) in her right eye on admission. Her left visual acuity was 1.2 (naked vision) and an upper temporal quadrant hemianopsia was revealed in her left eye. Optic disc atrophy was also found bilaterally during a fundus examination. The tumor was located at the t...

The light field is a 4D recording that includes the positional and directional information for incoming rays of an image. A hologram is a recording that reconstructs the complex wavefront of an image to include parallex and depth cues. We relate these two concepts using the Wigner distribution, and attempt to recreate a light field recorded scene using a phase only hologram.

In a national online survey, 505 participants reported their perceptions of energy consumption and savings for a variety of household, transportation, and recycling activities. When asked for the most effective strategy they could implement to conserve energy, most participants mentioned curtailment (e.g., turning off lights, driving less) rather than efficiency improvements (e.g., installing m...