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Short-term monocular deprivation strengthens the patched eye's contribution to binocular combination
- Source :
- Journal of vision. 13(5)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Binocularity is a fundamental property of primate vision. Ocular dominance describes the perceptual weight given to the inputs from the two eyes in their binocular combination. There is a distribution of sensory dominance within the normal binocular population with most subjects having balanced inputs while some are dominated by the left eye and some by the right eye. Using short-term monocular deprivation, the sensory dominance can be modulated as, under these conditions, the patched eye's contribution is strengthened. We address two questions: Is this strengthening a general effect such that it is seen for different types of sensory processing? And is the strengthening specific to pattern deprivation, or does it also occur for light deprivation? Our results show that the strengthening effect is a general finding involving a number of sensory functions, and it occurs as a result of both pattern and light deprivation.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
genetic structures
Sensory processing
medicine.medical_treatment
media_common.quotation_subject
Population
Motion Perception
Sensory system
Ocular dominance
Contrast Sensitivity
Optics
Vision, Monocular
Perception
medicine
Humans
education
media_common
education.field_of_study
Vision, Binocular
business.industry
eye diseases
Sensory Systems
Dominance, Ocular
Ophthalmology
Monocular deprivation
Dominance (ethology)
Sensory Thresholds
Female
sense organs
Sensory Deprivation
business
Psychology
Neuroscience
Binocular vision
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15347362
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of vision
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ecee2d85eee705b78a626fbcbc864000