title: Depth cues, rather than perceived depth, govern vergence.
abstract: We studied the influence of perceived surface orientation on vergence accompanying a saccade while viewing an ambiguous stimulus. We used the slant rivalry stimulus, in which perspective foreshortening and disparity specified opposite surface orientations. This rivalrous configuration induces alternations of perceived surface orientation, while the slant cues remain constant. Subjects were able to voluntarily control their perceptual state while viewing the ambiguous stimulus. They were asked to make a saccade across the perceived slanted surface. Our data show that vergence responses closely approximated the vergence response predicted by the disparity cue, irrespective of voluntarily controlled perceived orientation. However, comparing the data obtained while viewing the ambiguous stimulus with data from an unambiguous stimulus condition (when disparity and perspective specified similar surface orientations) revealed an effect of perspective cues on vergence. Collectively our results show that depth cues rather than perceived depth govern vergence.
authors: Helmholtz Institute, Department Physics of Man, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands. D.A.Wismeijer@phys.uu.nl
authors: D A
authors: DA
authors: Wismeijer
authors: R
authors: R
authors: van Ee
authors: C J
authors: CJ
authors: Erkelens
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D003290:Convergence, Ocular; D003463:Cues; D003867:Depth Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D009903:Optical Illusions; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D015357:Vision Disparity / Q000502:physiology*; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception
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