We investigated suprathreshold binocular combination, measuring both the perceived phase and perceived contrast of a cyclopean sine wave. We used a paradigm adapted from Ding and Sperling (2006, 2007) to measure the perceived phase by indicating the apparent location (phase) of the dark trough in the horizontal cyclopean sine wave relative to a black horizontal reference line, and we used the s...

PURPOSE The present treatments for amblyopia are predominantly monocular aiming to improve the vision in the amblyopic eye through either patching of the fellow fixing eye or visual training of the amblyopic eye. This approach is problematic, not least of which because it rarely results in establishment of binocular function. Recently it has shown that amblyopes possess binocular cortical mecha...

PURPOSE An early study claimed that ethanol ingestion can attenuate binocular rivalry and, in some cases, may produce the phenomenal fusion of normally rivalrous stimuli. The current study examined those claims in an experiment incorporating key controls that were lacking in the earlier study. METHODS There were two conditions, one in which observers consumed ethanol and the other in which th...

Signi cant perceptual improvements can be gained in the coding of stereoscopic videos, as is illustrated here by modifying the adaptive quantization of an MPEG-2 codec. Applying human visual properties to MPEG-2's temporal scalability framework, a perceptual adaptive quantization approach to stereoscopic video coding is presented. To optimize the perceived picture quality of the reconstructed s...