Adaptation to lens-induced heterophorias.
In previous studies we have shown that subjects with normal binocular vision adapt to prism-induced heterophorias. In this study we have continued the work by investigating whether the oculomotor system can also adapt to lens-induced heterophorias. It was found that subjects gradually adapted to the esophoria induced when viewing a distance chart through negative lenses. Adaptation also occurred to lens-induced esophoria and exophoria at near, while at distance, where the visual feedback was unaltered, the phoria remained virtually constant. These findings demonstrate the flexibility of the oculomotor system.
D000221:Adaptation, Ocular; D005133:Eye Movements; D005139:Eyeglasses; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D009216:Myopia / Q000628:therapy; D011305:Presbyopia / Q000628:therapy; D013285:Strabismus / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology