1. Fixating on the wallpaper illusion: a commentary on 'The role of vergence in the perception of distance: a fair test of Bishop Berkeley's claim' by Logvinenko et al. (2001)
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Hiroshi Ono and Radha P. Kohly
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Communication ,Visual perception ,Optical illusion ,business.industry ,Optical Illusions ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Distance Perception ,Subject (philosophy) ,Illusion ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Fixation, Ocular ,Convergence, Ocular ,Models, Psychological ,Epistemology ,Absolute (philosophy) ,Perception ,Humans ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Vergence (geology) ,Psychology ,Relation (history of concept) ,business ,media_common - Abstract
Is vergence state a reliable cue to absolute distance? The answer to this seemingly simple question has been the subject of a long-standing and controversial debate in the vision literature. It is somewhat sobering, but perhaps also an indication of the complexity of the problem, that vision researchers have not been able to communicate effectively with one another in order to answer de nitively this question. A recent attempt to answer this question was undertaken by Logvinenko et al. (2001). These authors traced the issue back to Bishop Berkeley (1709/1910), who hypothesized that vergence might serve as a cue to absolute distance. In particular, Logvinenko et al. attempted to resolve this issue through studying the relation between vergence eye movements and the wallpaper illusion, a relation on which several authors have commented including Helmholtz (1910/ 1962), and concluded that vergence is not a reliable cue to absolute distance. To mention just one other study, Richards and Miller (1969) traced formal experimental attempts to answer this question to Wundt (1862) and cite Hillebrand (1893), Irvine and Ludvigh (1936), Gogel (1961) and Ogle (1962) as other authors who have also
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- 2001
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