Visual accommodation as a cue for size.
Accommodation micropsia is examined in the general context of ocular accommodation as a cue for object size. The nature and limits of accommodation micropsia and arguments dealing with the possible contribution of accommodation to the perception of size are reviewed. Literature on the anomalous myopias, the intermediate-resting hypothesis, and theories of ciliary muscle innervation is examined critically in so far as it bears on the accommodation-micropsia hypothesis. The anomalous myopias and evidence for the intermediate-resting hypothesis are well documented, but without a mechanism for proprioceptive feedback from the ciliary complex about the state of accommodation it can only be concluded that such feedback would have to be indirect, either via the reflex link with vergence, or possibly through the agency of efference-copy neurones.
Meehan
J W
JW
DSTO Air Operations Division, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Day
R H
RH
D000065:Accommodation, Ocular; D002924:Ciliary Body / Q000502:physiology; D003463:Cues; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D011434:Proprioception; D012858:Size Perception