Amblyopia is a cerebral visual impairment considered to derive from abnormal visual experience (e.g., strabismus, anisometropia). Amblyopia, first considered as a monocular disorder, is now often seen as a primarily binocular disorder resulting in more and more studies examining the binocular deficits in the patients. The neural mechanisms of amblyopia are not completely understood even though ...

OBJECTIVES To examine deficits in monocular and binocular vision in adults with amblyopia and to test the following 2 hypotheses: (1) Regardless of clinical subtype, the degree of impairment in binocular integration predicts the pattern of monocular acuity deficits. (2) Subjects who lack binocular integration exhibit the most severe interocular suppression. METHODS Seven subjects with anisome...

This article considers the hypothesis that systems learning aspects of visual perception may benefit from the use of suitably designed developmental progressions during training. We report the results of simulations in which four models were trained to detect binocular disparities in pairs of visual images. Three of the models were developmental models in the sense that the nature of their visu...

This paper reviews literature on the motion processing of dynamic change in binocular disparity, called stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion. Studies investigating the visual processing of stereoscopic motion in the Z-axis, stereoscopic motion in the X/Y plane, and cyclopean motion are discussed. It is concluded that stereoscopic motion is processed by a motion-sensing system composed of special-pur...

The paper discusses the possible use of binocular cues by aircraft pilots in the final landing phase through a review of literature. The review includes medical and psychophysical literature, as well as works on pilot training, certification and flight experiments. It was found that stereopsis can be used as a depth cue up to several hundred meters. However, in situations where monocular cues a...

Vision is in large part interpretation — the brain’s guess as to the most likely real-world situation to account for the pattern of retinal stimulation that it experiences. But sometimes the pattern of stimulation does not permit unambiguous interpretation. So-called ‘ambiguous figures’ allow two different perceptual interpretations without any change in the physical appearance of the visual st...