# Vision science

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{{Short description|Scientific study of vision}}
'''Vision science''' is the scientific study of [visual perception](/source/visual_perception). Researchers in vision science can be called '''vision scientists''', especially if their research spans some of the science's many disciplines.

Vision science encompasses all studies of vision, such as how [human](/source/human) and non-human [organism](/source/organism)s process visual information, how conscious [visual perception](/source/visual_perception) works in humans, how to exploit visual [perception](/source/perception) for effective [communication](/source/communication), and how artificial systems can do the same tasks. Vision science overlaps with or encompasses disciplines such as [ophthalmology](/source/ophthalmology) and [optometry](/source/optometry), [neuroscience](/source/neuroscience)(s), [psychology](/source/psychology) (particularly [sensation and perception psychology](/source/sensation_and_perception_psychology), [cognitive psychology](/source/cognitive_psychology), [linguistics](/source/Linguistic_relativity), [biopsychology](/source/biopsychology), [psychophysics](/source/psychophysics), and [neuropsychology](/source/neuropsychology)), [physics](/source/physics) (particularly [optics](/source/optics)), [ethology](/source/ethology), and [computer science](/source/computer_science) (particularly [computer vision](/source/computer_vision), [artificial intelligence](/source/artificial_intelligence), and [computer graphics](/source/computer_graphics)), as well as other engineering related areas such as [data visualization](/source/data_visualization), [user interface design](/source/user_interface_design), and [human factors and ergonomics](/source/human_factors_and_ergonomics). Below is a list of pertinent journals and international conferences.

==Journals==

Scientific journals exclusively or predominantly concerned with vision science include:
* ''[Acta Ophthalmologica](/source/Acta_Ophthalmologica)''
* ''[American Journal of Ophthalmology](/source/American_Journal_of_Ophthalmology)''
* ''[Annual Review of Vision Science](/source/Annual_Review_of_Vision_Science)''
* ''[https://link.springer.com/journal/13414 Attention Perception & Psychophysics]'' (previously ''Perception & Psychophysics'')
* ''[British Journal of Ophthalmology](/source/British_Journal_of_Ophthalmology)''
* ''[Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology](/source/Clinical_%26_Experimental_Ophthalmology)''
* ''[Current Opinion in Ophthalmology](/source/Current_Opinion_in_Ophthalmology)''
* ''[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/EJO European Journal of Ophthalmology]''
* ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/experimental-eye-research Experimental Eye Research]''
* ''[Eye](/source/Eye_(journal))''
* ''[https://link.springer.com/journal/417 Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology]''
* [''Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science (IOVS)''](/source/Investigative_Ophthalmology_%26_Visual_Science)
* ''[JAMA Ophthalmology](/source/JAMA_Ophthalmology)''
* ''[https://journals.lww.com/glaucomajournal/pages/default.aspx Journal of Glaucoma]''
* ''[https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/pages/default.aspx Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology]''
* ''[https://www.hindawi.com/journals/joph/ Journal of Ophthalmology]''
* ''[Journal of the Optical Society of America](/source/Journal_of_the_Optical_Society_of_America)''
* ''[Journal of Vision](/source/Journal_of_Vision)''
* [https://tvst.arvojournals.org/ translational vision science & technology (tvst)]
* ''[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14751313 Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (OPO)]''
* [''Ophthalmology''](/source/Ophthalmology_(journal))
* ''[Optometry and Vision Science](/source/Optometry_and_Vision_Science)''
* ''[Perception](/source/Perception_(journal))'' and ''[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ipe i-Perception]''
* ''[Progress in Retinal and Eye Research](/source/Progress_in_Retinal_and_Eye_Research)''
* ''[https://brill.com/view/journals/sp/sp-overview.xml Seeing and Perceiving]'' and ''[https://brill.com/view/journals/sv/sv-overview.xml Spatial Vision]''
* ''[Survey of Ophthalmology](/source/Survey_of_Ophthalmology)''
* ''[Vision Research](/source/Vision_Research)'' (including ''Clinical Vision Sciences'')
* [https://opg.optica.org/optica/journal/optica/about.cfm#board Optica]

==Conferences==

* [Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology](/source/Association_for_Research_in_Vision_and_Ophthalmology) (ARVO)
* [American Academy of Ophthalmology](/source/American_Academy_of_Ophthalmology) (AAO) Annual Meeting
* [https://aaopt.org/ American Academy of Optometry](AAOpt) Annual Meeting
* European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)[http://ecvp.org/]
* Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS)[https://www.visionsciences.org/]
* Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APVC)[https://sites.google.com/view/apcv-portal]
* British Congress of Optometry and Vision Science(BCOVS)[https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-events/events?meta_type_sand=conference <nowiki>[4]</nowiki>]
* [https://www.lvpei.org/events/ Indian Contact Lens Education Program](ICLEP) Annual Meeting
* International Myopia Conference, [https://myopiainstitute.org/ International Myopia Institute]
* World Congress of Optometry(WCO)[https://worldcouncilofoptometry.info/ <nowiki>[5]</nowiki>]
* IVI International Optometry Conference[6]

==See also==

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* [Brain](/source/Brain)
* [Color constancy](/source/Color_constancy)
* [Color vision](/source/Color_vision)
* [Computer vision](/source/Computer_vision)
* [Eye](/source/Eye)
* [Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate](/source/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate)
* [Neuropsychology](/source/Neuropsychology)
* [Neuroscience](/source/Neuroscience)
* [Ophthalmology](/source/Ophthalmology)
* [Optical illusion](/source/Optical_illusion)s
* [Optometry](/source/Optometry)
* [Primary colors](/source/Primary_colors)
* [Psychophysics](/source/Psychophysics)
* [Visual cortex](/source/Visual_cortex)
* [Visual neuroscience](/source/Visual_neuroscience)
* [Visual system](/source/Visual_system)
{{div col end}}

==References==

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* Palmer, S.E. (1999). ''Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology''. MIT Press. {{ISBN|978-0-262-16183-1}}.

==External links==

* [http://www.visionscience.com/ VisionScience] – an Internet resource for research in human and animal vision.
* [http://platform.visiome.neuroinf.jp/ Visiome Platform] – digital research resource archive for vision science by the [Neuroinformatics](/source/Neuroinformatics) Japan Center
* [http://www.ecvp.org/ European Conference on Visual Perception] – an international scientific conference on vision science

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