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    Visual system responses like accommodation and vergence have distinct phasic and tonic components. These components interact, influencing how the eyes adapt to visual stimuli, especially at higher frequencies.

    Area of Science:

    • Vision Science
    • Ophthalmology
    • Neuroscience

    Background:

    • Accommodation and vergence responses exhibit aftereffects, suggesting phasic and tonic components.
    • Understanding the interplay between these subcomponents is crucial for visual system dynamics.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the roles of phasic and tonic components in the mutual interactions between accommodation and vergence.
    • To analyze the frequency and amplitude dependency of accommodative vergence (AV) and vergence accommodation (VA).

    Main Methods:

    • Examined AV and VA responses to varying temporal frequencies of defocus and disparity stimuli.
    • Utilized electronic cancellation of negative feedback to assess system responsiveness.
    • Measured the gain of accommodative vergence/accommodation (AC/A) and vergence accommodation/vergence (CA/C) ratios.

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    Main Results:

    • AV and VA were unresponsive to low temporal frequencies (<0.1 Hz) but responsive to higher frequencies (up to 0.5 Hz).
    • Removing negative feedback enabled responsiveness to low temporal frequencies.
    • AC/A and CA/C ratios increased nonlinearly with stimulus amplitude, with aftereffects observed in both systems.

    Conclusions:

    • A complementary relationship may exist between AC/A ratio amplitude and accommodation tonic adaptation, and CA/C ratio amplitude and vergence tonic adaptation.
    • Nonlinearities in AC/A and CA/C ratios are likely due to a limited saturation window for tonic adaptation.