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Abstract
Intraocular scatter, with its associated functional manifestations, is a leading cause of automotive accidents and a significant biomarker of covert and overt ocular disease (e.g., diseases of the cornea and lens). Nearly all current methods of measuring glare suffer from a lack of ecological validity; additionally, all recent studies in the glare literature investigating the deleterious effects of glare do so by measuring stimulus detection rather than recognition. The present study utilizes a novel and ecologically valid methodology to measure recognition acuity in a sample of healthy, young subjects. Macular pigment optical density (MPOD) was measured, and its effect on glare recognition acuity was assessed.