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Do EnChroma glasses improve performance on clinical tests for red-green color deficiencies?

Lookup NU author(s): Cat Pattie, Stacey Aston, Dr Gabriele Jordan

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© 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement. We investigated the claims of EnChroma that their notch filters aid chromatic discrimination in color-vision deficiencies (CVD). Few research studies have addressed these claims and reports are still inconclusive, mainly due to small sample sizes. We here add to previous research finding little evidence to support the benefits of EnChroma lenses. Comparing the performance of 86 well-categorized CVD observers and 24 controls on two clinical tests we report no overall improvement when EnChroma lenses were worn. In line with previous studies, our results imply an improvement in discrimination for some colors while worsening discrimination for others. A model was constructed computing discrimination changes for different groups of ideal observers corroborating our behavioral outcomes. Taken together, our results do not support the use of EnChroma notch filters for the improvement of color discrimination in CVD.

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Author(s): Pattie C, Aston S, Jordan G

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Optics Express

Year: 2022

Volume: 30

Issue: 18

Pages: 31872-31888

Online publication date: 17/08/2022

Acceptance date: 11/07/2022

Date deposited: 05/09/2022

ISSN (electronic): 1094-4087

Publisher: Optica Publishing Group

URL: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.456426

DOI: 10.1364/OE.456426

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