TABLE OF CONTENTS Jay M.Enoch Part Editor
School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California, and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, California
Theodore E.Cohn
School of Optometry and Department of Bioengineering
University of California
Berkeley, California
Part 7 of Volume I (Bass et al., eds., 1995) contained six chapters dealing, respectively, with the optics of the eye, visual performance, colorimetry, displays for vision research, optical generation of the vision stimulus, and with psychophysical methods.
In the five years since publication of that volume, much new information has been added to the literatures underlying these topic areas. In this time period, some things have changed but others did not. For example, Charman (p.24.8) observed Surgical methods of correction for both spherical and astigmatic refractive errors are currently at an experimental stage and their long-term effectiveness remains to be proven. Today, readers will already know, from ubiquitous advertisement on radio and elsewhere,...
