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1National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Japan. ssaida@nibh.go.jp
Abstract:
We examined accommodative vergence eye movements under conditions in which feedback about retinal-image slip was and was not present (i.e. closed-loop and open-loop conditions). We found that (a) in both conditions the two eyes started to move at the same time; (b) in the open-loop condition, vergence continued in both eyes; and (c) in the closed-loop condition, vergence continued in the occluded eye only, and the magnitude and velocity exceeded that of the occluded eye in the open-loop condition by a factor of two.
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