PSY-3215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Binocular Disparity, Binocular Vision, Horopter
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Cyclopean vision: our visual experience is as if we had one eye instead of two. Binocular fuse: when the two separate retinal images are combined into one visual object. Retinal images for object a falls on the same position for the left and right eye (to the right of the fovea) Retinal images for object b falls on the same position for the left and right eye (to the left of the fovea) If you were to slide the left eye so that it overlapped with the right eye, the retinal images would be identical / correspond. Horopter: an arc in space that is defined by what you are looking at in the moment. If you are looking at an object that is three feet away, the arc will be everything that is three feet away. Light waves from the object you are supposed to be looking at fall on the fovea.
