“…Absolute thresholds for detection of flashed stimuli, however useful, are often the final component of visual function to be affected in disease. Sensitivity for detection of fine spatial detail, motion and colour signals can be selectively damaged in many diseases of the eye and often precedes visual field loss (Barbur and Konstantakopoulou 2012, Bergin et al 2011, Hawkins et al 2003, Lee 1991, Westcott et al 1998, Bullimore et al 1993, Zihl et al 1983, Marré and Marré 1986, Verriest 1963, Krastel and Moreland 1991. Cerebrovascular accidents have also been shown to cause impaired contrast sensitivity (Fisk et al 2002) and colour vision loss (Rauscher et al 2011).…”