electrophysiological correlates of binocular stereo depth without binocular disparities双目立体视觉深度的电生理学的相关没有双眼差异.pdfVIP

Electrophysiological Correlates of Binocular Stereo Depth without Binocular Disparities 1 2 1,3 Karoline Spang *, Barbara Gillam , Manfred Fahle 1 Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 2 School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 3 The Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Vision Science, City University, London, United Kingdom Abstract A small region of background presented to only one eye in an otherwise binocular display may, under certain conditions, be resolved in the visual system by interpreting the region as a small gap between two similar objects placed at different depths, with the gap hidden in one eye by parallax. This has been called monocular gap stereopsis. We investigated the electrophysiological correlate of this type of stereopsis by means of sum potential recordings in 12 observers, comparing VEP’s for this stimulus (‘‘Gillam Stereo’’, Author BG has strong reservations about this term) with those for similar stimuli containing disparity based depth and with no depth (flat). In addition we included several control stimuli. The results show a pronounced early negative potential at a latency of around 170 ms (N170) for all stimuli containing non- identical elements, be they a difference caused by binocular disparity or by completely unmatched monocular contours. A second negative potential with latency around 270 ms (N270), on the other hand, is present only with stimuli leading to fusion and the perception of depth. This second component is similar for disparity-based stereopsis and monocular gap, or ‘‘Gillam Stereo’’ although slightly more pronounced for the former. We conjecture that the first component is related to the detection of differences between the images of the two eyes that may then eith