title: Defaults in stereoscopic and kinetic depth perception.
abstract: This study presents three findings concerning the mechanisms of depth perception. First, the shape of the three-dimensional percept evoked by two-frame motion is defined solely by the rotation component around an axis in the frontoparallel plane; the visual system assigns a default value to this rotation component to arrive at a unique solution. Second, when the visual axes of two eyes are almost parallel, the visual system uses a default vergence value to reconstruct stereoscopic depth. Third, the default vergence and default rotation angles are highly correlated across subjects. This correlation implies that the two modalities share a common scaling default at an internal level.
authors.affiliation: Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. lenny@skivs.ski.org
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Kontsevich
mesh_terms: D003463:Cues; D003867:Depth Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation