Associations Between Binocular Depth Perception and Performance Gains in Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition.

ABSTRACT: The ability to perceive differences in depth is important in many daily life situations. It is also of relevance in laparoscopic surgical procedures that require the extrapolation of three-dimensional visual information from two-dimensional planar images. Besides visual-motor coordination, laparoscopic skills and binocular depth perception are demanding visual tasks for which learning is important. This study explored potential relations between binocular depth perception and individual variations in performance gains during laparoscopic skill acquisition in medical students naïve of such procedures. Individual differences in perceptual learning of binocular depth discrimination when performing a random dot stereogram (RDS) task were measured as variations in the slope changes of the logis

SUBMITTER: Hatzipanayioti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524002 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature