NEURAL MECHANISMS OF BINOCULAR VISION
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF BINOCULAR VISION
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DOI:
10.1016/0042-6989(86)90177-x
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发表时间:
1986-01-01
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影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
PETTIGREW, JD
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作者:
BISHOP, PO;PETTIGREW, JD
The first publication of Vision Research in 1961 occurred at a time that can be seen in retrospect as marking a watershed in the history of binocular vision. Before that time it was generally believed that binocular depth perception was based on high-level quasi-cognitive events that took place somewhere in the no-man’s land between brain and mind. The adoption of such a view is easy to understand. We do not readily appreciate any change in the appearance of objects when we close one eye. The world we see seems not to change at all and visual acuity seems unaffected. From observations such as these the conclusion seems to follow that the form of objects is first elaborated for each eye separately and that stereopsis is added at a subsequent stage by the conjunction of these separately-elaborated uniocular forms. In one of his lectures Helmholtz (1868) considered the problem of seeing in three dimensions. He wrote:“We come now to the question: how is it possible for two flat images on the retina, each from a different perspective and each representing only two dimensions, to combine so as to present a single, solid image of three dimensions?.., The combination of these two sensations into a single perceptual image of the external world... must therefore be produced, not by any anatomical mechanism of sensation, but by a mental act.”