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    • Vision Science

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    • Incomitance, gaze-dependent ocular misalignment, is common in strabismus.
    • Mechanisms for maintaining ocular alignment (concomitance) in healthy individuals are not well understood.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • Investigate adaptive processes in the vergence system responding to horizontal incomitant vergence stimuli.
    • Explore how the vergence system adapts to gaze-dependent visual demands.

    Main Methods:

    • Measured horizontal vergence responses in healthy subjects after gaze shifts.
    • Induced convergence stimuli and analyzed changes in phoria, vergence velocity, and latency.

    Main Results:

    • Repetitive saccades into convergence stimuli reduced phoria across all gaze directions.
    • Adaptation was more pronounced in the direction of the convergence stimulus.
    • Vergence velocity increased, and latency decreased significantly.

    Conclusions:

    • The vergence system exhibits rapid, gaze-dependent adaptation to incomitant stimuli.
    • These adaptive mechanisms enhance binocular vision efficacy and ocular alignment.
    • Understanding these processes is crucial for conditions like new-onset strabismus.