Fixation disparity and accommodation for stimuli closer and more distant than oculomotor tonic positions

Abstract

Both the vergence and the accommodative system have individual tonic positions (also referred to as dark vergence and dark focus, respectively) where the static response may be expected to be most accurate. This was confirmed by measuring fixation disparity with nonius lines and accommodation with an autorefractometer for foveal stimuli at viewing distances of 460, 100, 60, 40, and 30 cm. Multiple regression analysis was used at each viewing distance to predict fixation disparity from dark vergence, dark focus, accommodative gain and accommodative convergence: these accommodative measures had little effect on the inter-individual variability of near fixation disparity nor on the linear slope of fixation disparity as a function viewing distance.