title: Effect of induced fixation disparity by negative lenses on the visually evoked potential wave.
abstract: The effect of induced fixation disparity produced by negative lenses and base-in prisms on the pattern visually evoked potential (VEP) was investigated. Monocular and binocular pattern reversal VEP were recorded through the negative lenses and base-in prisms using a 9.5 min arc check size. The results suggest that the mean binocular amplitude was 27% larger than the mean monocular amplitude which indicates partial summation in the absence of negative lenses or base-in prisms. A reduction of the binocular VEP amplitude appears to arise in the presence of fixation disparity induced by both the negative lenses and base-in prisms. Both the prisms and the negative lenses had no appreciable effect on the monocular VEP amplitude.
authors.affiliation: Department of Optometry, Bradford University, West Yorkshire, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heravian-Shandiz
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Douthwaite
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Jenkins
mesh_terms: D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007909:Lenses; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D015357:Vision Disparity / Q000502:physiology*; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology; D015349:Vision, Monocular / Q000502:physiology