title: Dark vergence and dark accommodation in human infants.
abstract: Vergence angle and accommodative state were assessed photographically in 3-, 6-, and 12-month old infants. In the dark, fluctuations of vergence and accommodation were generally uncorrelated among all groups. The vergence-accommodation functions obtained in the dark had a mean slope of 0.04. These findings provide evidence in infants for an uncoupling of vergence and accommodation in the absence of patterned retinal input.
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular; D000328:Adult; D003624:Darkness; D005133:Eye Movements; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant