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ArticleJournal of vision2018

Binocular summation for reflexive eye movements.

Christian Quaia, Lance M Optican, Bruce G Cumming

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Article in Journal of vision, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Saccadic Reaction Times and Computational Modelling Reveal Heterogeneous Binocular Summation in Glaucomatous Visual Fields.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026
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  2. Integration of Visual Motion Signals in Reduced Visual Conditions.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christian QuaiaLaboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Lance M OpticanLaboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Bruce G CummingLaboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Funding

Role Of Visual Cortex In Depth PerceptionZIAEY000404 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI CUMMING, BRUCE G · 2009 to 2021
$27.9M
Neural Control Of GazeZIAEY000302 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI OPTICAN, LANCE M · 2009 to 2019
$10.2M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psychophysical studies and our own subjective experience suggest that, in natural viewing conditions (i.e., at medium to high contrasts), monocularly and binocularly viewed scenes appear very similar, with the exception of the improved depth perception provided by stereopsis. This phenomenon is usually described as a lack of binocular summation. We show here that there is an exception to this rule: Ocular following eye movements induced by the sudden motion of a large stimulus, which we recorded from three human subjects, are much larger when both eyes see the moving stimulus, than when only one eye does. We further discovered that this binocular advantage is a function of the interocular correlation between the two monocular images: It is maximal when they are identical, and reduced when the two eyes are presented with different images. This is possible only if the neurons that underlie ocular following are sensitive to binocular disparity.

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AdultContrast SensitivityEye MovementsHumansMaleMiddle AgedPsychophysicsVision, BinocularVision DisparityYoung Adult

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PMID29621384
PMCPMC5888722

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