title: Measuring the depth induced by an opposite-luminance (but not anticorrelated) stereogram.
abstract: The same-sign hypothesis suggests that only those edges in the two retinal images whose luminance gradients have the same sign, known as same-sign edges, can be stereoscopically fused to generate a perception of depth. If true, one would expect that the magnitude of the depth induced by an opposite-luminance stereogram (eg one where the figure in one stereo half-image is black and the figure in the other is white) should be determined by the disparity of the same-sign edges. Despite the considerable work on the same-sign hypothesis this prediction has yet to be verified. Here we confirm this prediction for a particular opposite-luminance stereogram and discuss possible reasons why it is not true for opposite-luminance stereograms that are presented briefly or where each stereo half-image contains many elements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. piers_howe@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Piers D L
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Howe
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D003867:Depth Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008029:Lighting; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors