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Perceived visual direction near an occluder.

R van Ee1, M S Banks, B T Backus

  • 1School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA. raymond@psyche.mit.edu

Vision Research
|April 5, 2000
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Hering's laws predict different visual directions for occluded objects. This study found that visual direction aligns with Hering's laws for larger separations, but behaves monocularly for smaller separations.

Area of Science:

  • Visual perception
  • Oculomotor physiology
  • Binocular vision

Background:

  • When an object is occluded, each eye may view different parts of the distant object.
  • Hering's laws of visual direction predict distinct perceived directions for binocular versus monocular portions of a target.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the validity of Hering's laws of visual direction in scenarios involving occlusion.
  • To determine how perceived visual direction is assigned when different parts of a target are visible to each eye.

Main Methods:

  • Observers were asked to align a monocularly viewed line segment with a binocularly viewed line segment.
  • Data were corrected for vergence errors and monocular spatial distortions measured in control experiments.
  • Experiments involved varying target separation and orientation (vertical and horizontal).

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Main Results:

  • Observer alignment settings were consistent with Hering's laws when target separation was 30 arcmin or greater.
  • At smaller separations (2 arcmin), observers aligned targets as if viewing with only one eye.
  • This monocular-like behavior was observed for both vertical and horizontal segments, and even without an occluder.

Conclusions:

  • Perceived visual direction in occlusion scenarios minimizes, but does not eliminate, shape distortions of the occluded object.
  • The visual system adapts its directional assignments based on target separation, deviating from Hering's laws at close distances.