Author:
Dhungel Deepa,Stevenson Scott B.
Abstract
AbstractThe binocular alignment of the eyes involves both voluntary and reflexive mechanisms, but little is known about the visual input and neurological pathway of the reflex component. Our studies examined the role of spatiotemporal frequency and contrast in the control of reflex eye alignment, and compared the contrast sensitivity of the alignment reflex with psychophysical contrast sensitivity. We measured the contrast sensitivity of vertical disparity-driven vergence eye movements in response to bandwidth filtered static or 6 Hz counterphase flickering noise and measured psychophysical detection sensitivity for the same stimuli. Contrast thresholds for producing a detectable vertical alignment change (measured with nonius lines) were determined using a staircase method for 7 spatial frequencies [0.25–16 cycles per degree] and 3 vertical disparities [5, 10, and 30 arcmin] in 7 adults with normal or corrected to normal vision. The main findings of this study are, (1) the vertical alignment reflex had overall relatively high contrast sensitivity, comparable to but somewhat less than visual detection thresholds, (2) the most effective stimulus spatial frequency scaled in inverse proportion to the disparity being stimulated, and (3) unlike psychophysical contrast sensitivity, the eye alignment reflex contrast sensitivity was not improved by flickering low spatial frequencies.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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