User talk:Anna76

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Hello, Anna76, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! — Q uantling (talk &#124; contribs) 21:05, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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Presbyopia article
Thank you for your contribution to the Presbyopia article. Because the material you added regarding "Image processing = the brain" is new to the article, I am hoping you can add a citation or two to support it. Thanks! By the way, if you have a citation but are unsure how to add it, please give me the citation here and I will help you to insert it into the article appropriately. Thanks again — Q uantling (talk &#124; contribs) 21:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for adding the citations and additional material. I think, however, that the new information is about cutting-edge research rather than proven technologies and should have a smaller footprint in the Presbyopia article, where the focus is on well-established practices.  I have edited the article.  — Q uantling (talk &#124; contribs) 17:44, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Dear Quantling, Thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia and reviewing my contribution. I very much appreciate your comments. As a neuroscientist with years of experience in vision research in mammals and humans, I believe it is highly relevant for the community to be exposed to the relatively new solutions that have been studied and published in leading scientific journals during the last few decades (e.g., Polat et al. (2004). Improving vision in adult amblyopia by perceptual learning. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 101 (17), 6692-6697; Polat et al., (2012). Training the brain to overcome the effect of aging on the human eye. Scientific Reports by Nature Group; Polat et al., (1998). Collinear stimuli regulate visual responses depending on Cell's contrast threshold.  Nature, 391, 580-584). Needless to say, we belie that publishing information that has already been peer-reviewed provides the necessary care and diligence that should be taken when reporting scientific updates, in order to maintain the credibility of Wikipedia. As the visual system is comprised of two main subsystems, the optics (eye) and the brain, therefore I believe that stating that " Treatment for presbyopia has advanced significantly in recent years, thanks to widened availability of Optometry care as well as over-the-counter vision correction" at the opening of the Treatment section is not providing the full picture to Wikipedia users, as it is a priori narrowing the scope of this section to half of the available solutions today. For that reason, I have changed the original subtitles to clearer statements and added highly reliable textbook references, acknowledged by all visual scientists. I believe that it is essential to explicitly outline the proven benefits of solutions based on image processing improvement in the brain compared to refractive solutions, especially for preventing further near vision deterioration and cognitive decline. Warm regards, Anna Sterkin, PhD -Anna76 (talk) 09:45, 6 June 2012 (UTC)