ArticleJournal of vision2018
Human infants can generate vergence responses to retinal disparity by 5 to 10 weeks of age.
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 8 papers.
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- Neural Control of Vergence and Ocular Accommodation.Annual review of vision science · 2025Review
- Late Development of Sensory Thresholds for Horizontal Relative Disparity in Human Visual Cortex in the Face of Precocial Development of Thresholds for Absolute Disparity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Absolute and relative disparity mechanisms revealed by an equivalent noise analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Non-Invasive Recording of Ocular-Following Responses in Children: A Promising Tool for Stereo Deficiency Evaluation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The relationship between reflex eye realignment and the percept of single vision in young children.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Convergence and divergence to radial optic flow in infancy.Journal of vision · 2019Article
- The Importance of the Interaction Between Ocular Motor Function and Vision During Human Infancy.Annual review of vision science · 2019Review
- Do Balance Demands Induce Shifts in Visual Proprioception in Crawling Infants?Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Vergence is defined as a binocular eye movement during which the two eyes move in opposite directions to align to a target in depth. In adults, fine vergence control is driven primarily by interocular retinal image disparity. Although infants have not typically been shown to respond to disparity until 3 to 5 months postpartum, they have been shown to align their eyes from hours after birth. It remains unclear what drives these responses in young infants. In this experiment, 5- to 10-week-old human infants were presented with a dynamic random noise stimulus oscillating in disparity at 0.1 Hz over an amplitude of 2° for 30 s. Fourier transforms of the horizontal eye movements revealed significant disparity-driven responses at the frequency of the stimulus in over half of the tested infants. Because the stimulus updated dynamically, this experiment precluded the possibility of independent monocular fixations to a sustained target. These data demonstrate cortical binocular function in humans by five weeks, the youngest age tested here, which is as much as two months younger than previously believed.
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