[visionlist] Seeing and Perceiving Feature Issue “Clinical Vision Science”

[Susana Chung]

This is a correction to a previously sent announcement.  The website  
for our new journal Seeing and Perceiving is: www.brill.nl/sp

Seeing and Perceiving Feature Issue “Clinical Vision Science”

Our Journal, Seeing and Perceiving, the continuation of Spatial  
Vision, is committed to contribute to new developments in clinical as  
well as basic vision science, and especially to the translation and  
integration between basic and clinical research, on a continuing  
basis.  To this end we have broadened our Editorial Board to include  
clinical vision scientists, and we are now inviting authors to  
contribute to an initial Special Issue on “Clinical Vision Science”,  
with the expectation of future papers and debates in this area being  
published in regular issues in the Journal.

Much of what we know about the visual capability of individuals with  
visual or developmental disorders comes from applying vigorous basic  
research methods to the study of clinical patients.  Moreover, basic  
research has formed the basis for the development of many clinical  
tests that are now routinely used in clinical settings: e.g., the  
Bailey-Lovie Visual Acuity Chart, the Pelli-Robson contrast  
sensitivity chart, the grading system for cataracts and other ocular  
abnormalities, and the development of SWAP (short-wavelength automated  
perimetry) for identifying early glaucomatous changes.  In addition,  
clinicians now rely on the theory of signal detection to diagnose  
whether or not a patient has a certain eye disease.  In short, all of  
us have benefited tremendously from the creative applications of basic  
research to addressing issues that have relevance to everyday life.

The scope of the feature issue covers all areas of vision science that  
address issues of clinical importance, or bear direct or implied  
relevance to everyday activities for people with a normal visual  
system.  Examples of potential topics include, but are not limited to,  
the following:

•            visual requirements for everyday tasks (e.g. reading,  
face recognition, mobility, driving, navigation)
•            efforts to minimize the impact of visual or developmental  
disorders on performing everyday tasks
•            methods to improve the performance on everyday tasks for  
individuals with visual or developmental disorders
•            development of efficient psychophysical methods or new  
clinical tests to evaluate visual performance in clinical patients
•            development of new statistical or analytical tools that  
will improve the reliability of analysis based on sparse data-set from  
clinical patients
•            new knowledge about the visual system that can be drawn  
based on the findings from clinical patients

Complete manuscripts of previously unpublished original research or  
review articles should be prepared according to the Instructions to  
Authors published on the website of Seeing and Perceiving (www.brill.nl/sp) 
.  Please submit your manuscript by January 15, 2011.  Articles are  
placed on-line as soon as they are accepted and processed.  Articles  
will be then brought together and published in one or two bound  
Special Issues.  We anticipate that the Special Issues will appear in  
the Summer of 2011.  Papers which are accepted earlier than this, once  
on-line, will be fully citable via a DOI number.

Enquiries about this feature issue can be sent to:
Susana Chung, Co-Editor for this Issue, s.chung at berkeley.edu
Zhong-lin Lu, Co-Editor for this Issue, zhonglin at usc.edu
Concetta Morrone, Editor-in-Chief, concetta at in.cnr.it
Adam Reeves, Editor-in-Chief, reeves at neu.edu



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