VISION IS TO SEE, PERCEIVE, LOOK AND PREDICT

If you are convinced that 'seeing' is passive sensoriality, this is not the page for you!

You wonder ...

• I would like to improve my eyesight: perhaps I am demanding something impossible? 😳

• Should I be content with seeing 20/20 and having 'straight' eyes? 🤪

• Is it true that visual fatigue is a matter of muscles? 🤔

• I can't 'learn to see': I've already done it in the very early years of life, or have I not? 😔

• Aren't vision problems, after all, only due to the arrival of a bad image on the retina? 🧐

• After all, isn't reading and writing just a matter of language skills? 😛

How to see better? A learning network

Have you ever thought about the differences between 'sight' and 'vision'?

Do you think it is more important:

• what the eyes tell the brain about the world (`SIGHT`),

or

• what the brain can do with the eyes to gather useful information to achieve its goals (`VISION`) ?

😎

A cosa serve il TVO? Testimonianze

How to see better?

What qualities are required in addition to sharpness of the retinal image, good contrast responsiveness, an unrestricted visual field and good light sensitivity? Is it sufficient to imagine eyes serving the higher cognitive systems? Or is it enough to add the qualities of the short-term, long-term and working memory systems?

Missing ...

Processing Speed

Readiness, efficiency and speed are important: but it is important to achieve them without paying the price of increased performance anxiety.

Flexibility

Ability to adapt to different contexts in a short period of time; quickly identifying necessary information

Sustained Attention

Resilience and the ability to sustain a visual task over time with minimal effort

Distributed Attention

Simultaneous processing of information coming from both the object - face - fixed text and the visual context (the scene, the sheet, etc.)

Selective Attention and Orienting of Attention

Inhibit, ward off or manage distractors; move gaze and attention in complex and crowded visual environments (such as school texts) without 'getting lost' or 'getting confused'

Error monitoring

Ability to catch errors or omissions more and more quickly while performing a task (reading, writing, drawing, copying, etc.).

Intersensory integration

Unifying information from sight, hearing, touch and balance into a meaningful whole.

Visuomotor integration

High coordination of vision with fine and gross body movements; instantaneous adjustment of static and dynamic posture

Huge neurological network capable of learning

The number of cortical and subcortical brain areas involved in vision is impressive: many of these areas have exceptionally prolonged neuroplasticity

Attention and Executive Functions

Many modern cognitive trainings aim at improving Executive Attention and Working Memory, also in its visuospatial aspects. OVT also pursues the improvement of Visual Attention (sustained, directed, selective and distributed) and Visuospatial and Visuoperceptive Working Memory

Oculomotion

We believe that voluntary gaze orientation can be learned and optimised. This is confirmed by the enormous literature on the plasticity of saccadic gain; the fruitful exercise of saccadic and pursuit skills in Sport Vision Optometry; the neuroplasticity of the cerebellum; the frontal components of the saccadic network; the recognition of the evolution of voluntary saccadic skills in reading, and our experience as trainers. It is not simply a matter of individual differences.

Perception

In a modularist and localist conception, perception cannot be learnt: but can the 'innate' module of form perception be penetrated through the involvement of executive functions?

What is Optometric Vision Training for?

OVT is about bringing under voluntary and conscious control processes that are managed automatically and unconsciously on a daily basis; improving their accuracy, speed and sustainability; and finally, automating and generalising what has been learnt as much as possible. It proposes old, poorly solved and poorly automated problems in a new guise commensurate with the patient's capabilities.

Calibrated & Adapted

For each patient, each exercise is calibrated on the threshold of 'difficult but executable', without ever proposing tasks that are inaccessible due to oversized difficulty: this contributes to an increased feeling of self-efficacy, of being 'capable', and ultimately has the potential to improve the patient's self-esteem.

Peripersonal Space

Useful in the management of non strabismic binocular problems present only in the space bounded by the extension of the patient's outstretched arm: the space of reading, writing and the use of smartphones, tablets and computers. Problems that can be interpreted as difficulties in spatial localisation of the proximal object.

Top-Down Control

These are not 'muscular' activities; nor are they about acquiring 'athletic' skills. The exercises require continuous monitoring of both performance and errors (CEN and SNS networks), in the context of dual-tasks and multiple-tasks that help the subject regain control of skills taken for granted.

Hey! You're making it!

Sometimes even I cannot imagine the results of a well-done training! When parents and patient work together, unthinkable results are achieved.

A good patient relationship is a great help

After all, we are learning something fun: a little levity and empathy are the glue for each exercise

Patient Testimonials

Often the parents and teachers of children who do OVT tell us unsuspected benefits

I no longer feel fatigued when reading, and I can study without a headache!

Freddie Mercury The show must go on!
I can stay focused during lessons, copy from the blackboard faster, and find everything I need more quickly

Albert Einstein Mein Weltbild
They told me that seeing well had nothing to do with 20/20, and I didn't understand. Now in sport my performance has gone up a lot, my coach is enthusiastic, and I feel in control of the game.

Lionel Messi from Pulce
I couldn't write on the line, the letters would get bigger or smaller and I couldn't adjust the size: now I write well and I don't worry about it ... so much so that I've come up with something big!

Homer The Iliad

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