Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Colour but not form patterns combine between the eyes.

E M Wong1, A W Freeman

  • 1Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology
|September 14, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Subjects can reconstruct visual patterns by combining information presented to each eye separately. This demonstrates binocular cooperation, useful for assessing normal vision.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

A Warning to the Profession.

The Independent practitioner·2023
Same author

Safety of ultrasound gel in real-time scanning of the lumbar spine in obstetric anaesthesia.

International journal of obstetric anesthesia·2022
Same author

Novel associations between blood DNA methylation and body mass index in middle-aged and older adults.

International journal of obesity (2005)·2017
Same author

Association between DNA methylation at SOCS3 gene and body mass index might be due to familial confounding.

International journal of obesity (2005)·2017
Same author

The influence of Dr. William H. Welch on public health.

Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital·2014
Same author

Using tumour pathology to identify people at high genetic risk of breast and colorectal cancers.

Pathology·2011

Area of Science:

  • Visual perception
  • Neuroscience
  • Ophthalmology

Background:

  • Binocular vision involves integrating information from two eyes.
  • Understanding how the brain combines visual input is crucial for visual neuroscience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine conditions for reconstructing visual patterns from dichoptically presented patches.
  • To investigate the cooperation between visual information presented to separate eyes.

Main Methods:

  • Presenting one green and four red patches to one eye.
  • Presenting five patches to the other eye with swapped red and green colors at corresponding locations.

Main Results:

  • Subjects perceived a single color pattern when chromatic contrasts were optimized.
  • Intermixed gratings did not segregate into coherent percepts as effectively.

Conclusions:

  • Demonstrates cooperation between color patch responses in different eyes.
  • Suggests potential applications in testing for normal binocular vision.

Related Experiment Videos