How does adaptation to disparity affect the perception of reversible figures?
The finding of Virsu in 1975 that prior adaptation to a version of the Schröder staircase with disparity tends to produce the opposite perspective interpretation of a subsequently presented zero-disparity stereogram was confirmed. A similar pattern of results was found when the test field was monocularly rather than binocularly presented, even after an interval of 30-60 seconds. The origin of the effect is discussed in the light of this new evidence.
D003867:Depth Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D009903:Optical Illusions; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual