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1: Vision Res. 2001 Jun;41(14):1743-8.Click here to read Links

Ocular dominance reverses as a function of horizontal gaze angle.

Khan AZ, Crawford JD.

York Centre for Vision Research, CIHR Group for Action and Perception, and Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ont., Canada M3J1P3.

Ocular dominance is the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other [e.g. Porac, C. & Coren, S. (1976). The dominant eye. Psychological Bulletin 83(5), 880-897]. In standard sighting tests, most people consistently fall into either the left- or right eye-dominant category [Miles, W. R. (1930). Ocular dominance in human adults. Journal of General Psychology 3, 412-420]. Here we show this static concept to be flawed, being based on the limited results of sighting with gaze pointed straight ahead. In a reach-grasp task for targets within the binocular visual field, subjects switched between left and right eye dominance depending on horizontal gaze angle. On average, ocular dominance switched at gaze angles of only 15.5 degrees off center.

PMID: 11369037 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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