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About the study and citation:

The study that led to this data set had been approved by the Ethics Committee of the J.W.Goethe University of Frankfurt and the testing was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants after the purpose of the study had been fully explained. In order to preserve the anonymity and privacy of the participants they are identified here only by a two digit number. The procedures were performed in the Psychophysics Lab of Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (Frankfurt am Main / Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Ruxandra Sireteanu.

We place no restriction on the use of this data set, with the exception that we request that if anyone wishes to use it in a published work will inform us and allow us to review it before publication.

Any use of this data set must be cited as:

• Thiel A., Iftime A. (2016), Temporal instabilities in amblyopic perception: a quantitative approach. Perception, doi:10.1177/0301006615625796 [link]

Refer to the above article for a full explanation of the investigation procedures and for the results. Further details about this larger set set are published in:

• Iftime A (2009), New Psychophysical Methods for Investigation of Amblyopic Patients. Doctoral dissertation, Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest (also available translated in Romanian, with the title “Metode psihofizice noi de investigare a pacientilor cu ambliopie”)
• Thiel, A. (2009). Reizspezifische Fehlwarhenhmungen von erwachsenen Personen mit Amblyopie. Doctoral disseration, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main.
• Iftime, A. M., Thiel, A. & Sireteanu, R. (2008). An objective evaluation of temporal instabilities in amblyopic perception. Perception 37, ECVP Abstract Supplement, 112.
• Iftime, A. M., Thiel, A. & Sireteanu, R. (2007). An Objective Evaluation of Information Loss in Amblyopic Perception. Eur Biophys J 36, EBSA Abstract supplement 1.