31/03/2000 Computer Science Medicine Psychology
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000333 SemanticScholar ID: 32936940 MAG: 2045723110

Getting the measure of vergence weight in nearness perception

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Combining multiple sources of information allows the human nervous system to construct an approximately Euclidean representation of near (personal) space. Within this space, binocular vergence is an important source of egocentric distance information. We investigated how the nervous system determines the significance (weight) accorded to vergence information when other (retinal) distance cues are present. We found that weight decreases with (1) increasing discrepancy between vergence information and other cues and (2) reduced vergence demand. The results also provided evidence that the nervous system represents vergence related distance information in units of nearness (the reciprocal of distance).

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Prof. Mark Mon-Williams

University of Leeds - Chair in Cognitive Psychology

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