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title: "Vision science"
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Vision science is the scientific study of 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 and non-human organisms process visual information, how conscious visual perception works in humans, how to exploit visual perception for effective communication, and how artificial systems can do the same tasks. Vision science overlaps with or encompasses disciplines such as ophthalmology and optometry, neuroscience(s), psychology (particularly sensation and perception psychology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, biopsychology, psychophysics, and neuropsychology), physics (particularly optics), ethology, and computer science (particularly computer vision, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics), as well as other engineering related areas such as data visualization, user interface design, and 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
American Journal of Ophthalmology
Annual Review of Vision Science
Attention Perception & Psychophysics (previously Perception & Psychophysics)
British Journal of Ophthalmology
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology
European Journal of Ophthalmology
Experimental Eye Research
Eye
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science (IOVS)
JAMA Ophthalmology
Journal of Glaucoma
Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology
Journal of Ophthalmology
Journal of the Optical Society of America
Journal of Vision
translational vision science & technology (tvst)
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (OPO)
Ophthalmology
Optometry and Vision Science
Perception and i-Perception
Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Seeing and Perceiving and Spatial Vision
Survey of Ophthalmology
Vision Research (including Clinical Vision Sciences)
Optica


== Conferences ==
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting
American Academy of Optometry(AAOpt) Annual Meeting
European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)[1]
Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS)[2]
Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APVC)[3]
British Congress of Optometry and Vision Science(BCOVS)[4]
Indian Contact Lens Education Program(ICLEP) Annual Meeting
International Myopia Conference, International Myopia Institute
World Congress of Optometry(WCO)[5]
IVI International Optometry Conference[6]


== See also ==


== References ==

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


== External links ==
VisionScience – an Internet resource for research in human and animal vision.
Visiome Platform – digital research resource archive for vision science by the Neuroinformatics Japan Center
European Conference on Visual Perception – an international scientific conference on vision science