Volume 3, Number 11, Article 4, Pages 685-697 doi:10.1167/3.11.4 http://journalofvision.org/3/11/4/ ISSN 1534-7362
Perceived slant from Werner’s illusion affects binocular saccadic eye movements
Martin H. Both
Utrecht University, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Raymond van Ee
Utrecht University, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Casper J. Erkelens
Utrecht University, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstract

We examined whether binocular saccadic eye movements are determined solely by disparity-defined slant or whether they are influenced by both disparity-defined and perceived slant. The Werner illusion was used to distinguish a plane's disparity-defined slant from its perceived slant. Three subjects viewed a horizontally elongated test strip that was flanked vertically by two planes. The perceived slant of the test strip depended on the slant of the flanking planes. Subjects estimated the perceived slant of the test strip by adjusting the angle between two lines in a symbolic top view. The saccadic eye movements between targets on the test strip were recorded both with visual feedback (“later saccades”) and without visual feedback (“first saccades”). We calculated vergence differences for saccades between targets on the test strip (and for fixation on these targets). For each geometrical test strip slant we examined whether the vergence differences could be explained as an effect of perceived slant. This study shows that saccadic eye movements are determined predominantly by the disparity-defined slant, but they can be affected by perceived slant, particularly when multiple saccades are being made.

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Received March 4, 2003; published November 18, 2003
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Both, M. H., van Ee, R., & Erkelens, C. J. (2003). Perceived slant from Werner’s illusion affects binocular saccadic eye movements. Journal of Vision, 3(11):4, 685-697, http://journalofvision.org/3/11/4/, doi:10.1167/3.11.4.
Keywords
binocular vision, saccades, slant perception, disconjugacy
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