A cyclopean neural mechanism compensating for optical differences between the eyes.

ABSTRACT: The two eyes of an individual routinely differ in their optical and neural properties, yet percepts through either eye remain more similar than predicted by these differences. Little is known as to how the brain resolves this conflicting information. Differences in visual inputs from the two eyes have been studied extensively in the context of binocular vision and rivalry [1], but it remains unknown how the visual system calibrates and corrects for normal variability in image quality between the eyes, and whether this correction is applied to each eye separately or after their signals have converged. To test this, we used adaptive optics to control and manipulate the blur projected on each retina, and then compared judgments of image focus through either eye and how these judgments were bi

SUBMITTER: Radhakrishnan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4354679 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature