title: Binocular interactions measured by choice reaction times in pigeons.
abstract: In 7 pigeons binocular interactions were studied by recording monocular and binocular choice reaction times (RTs) to a pattern discrimination task. In all the animals binocular responses were found to be significantly faster than monocular RTs. In order to assess whether binocular advantage might be ascribed to a neural interaction between the two eyes, monocular and binocular performances were evaluated according to a probability summation model. The results indicate that in the great majority of animals, probability summation alone can account for binocular superiority.
authors: Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica, Universita di Pisa, Italy.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Di Stefano
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Kusmic
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Musumeci
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D010856:Columbidae / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D011336:Probability; D011930:Reaction Time; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*