Composite binocular perception from dichoptic stimulus arrays with similar ensemble information.

ABSTRACT: We view the world through laterally displaced eyes that generate two streams of image signals differing slightly in their perspectives of the visual scene. The brain derives three-dimensional structures from these two image streams by establishing binocular matches and computing image disparities between the two eyes' views. Since the binocular matching problem can have multiple, alternative solutions, vision relies on several strategies to determine the most probable matches. The current study investigated whether the visual system might utilize regularities among neighbouring features (feature ensembles) when confronting this problem. We hypothesized that binocular perception with unlikely, anomalous ensembles would indicate unsuccessful binocular matches. We made dichoptic stimulus arra

SUBMITTER: Cha O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5973937 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature