Stereodeficient subjects show substantial differences in interocular transfer of two motion adaptation aftereffects.

Abstract

Interocular transfer (IOT) of two motion aftereffects was examined in subjects with normal and deficient stereopsis. Normal subjects showed complete (100%) IOT of motion adaptation on coherent motion thresholds, but only partial IOT of a conventional motion aftereffect, supporting suggestions that the latter aftereffect may be mediated at a lower level in the visual pathway than the extrastriate regions implicated in processing coherent motion. This idea was strengthened by an even greater dissociation between the extent of IOT of the two aftereffects among stereodeficient subjects who exhibited very low IOT of the conventional motion aftereffect, but high (> 87%) IOT of the coherence motion aftereffect.