PSYCH 2E03 Lecture Notes - Depth Perception, Horopter, Sightline
12 Jun 2013
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Organization of the eyeball stereoscopic due to frontal eyes very good depth perception compromise panoramic view (predator) Panoramic due to lateral eyes, almost 180 can do depth perception but not as good as frontal eyes (prey) Based on sensory inputs coming from the skeletal muscles. Especially important for distances greater than 200 meters. Ames room roof organized in such a way that you don"t realize that both people are of the same height. Horopter disparity and stereopsis inter-field disparity and stereopsis. Both eyes are looking at a particular point, fixation point. Visual axis running almost to the middle of the eyeball (fovea) Visual axis: is the line running from fovea to the object in focus. While certain objects are on the circular plane (horopter) that runs through fixation point: is the point where the visual axes of both eyes meet fixation point, others are not.
