The relationship of contrast sensitivity functions to sports vision.

Contrast sensitivity, a more recent test of visual function, has never been studied in its relationship to sports vision. The hypothesis that contrast sensitivity functions among college varsity level baseball players significantly differs from that of a random sample of optometry students was tested using Arden grating plates. A statistically significant difference was found at the 98 percent confidence level, demonstrating that in this study, a sample of college varsity level baseball players have higher level contrast sensitivity functions than those of a randomly selected sample of Southern California College of Optometry students.