Utrocular discrimination is not sufficient for utrocular identification. 1985

H Ono, and R Barbeito

The distinction between reliability and validity is critical in examining utrocular identification. Four experiments demonstrated that two cues that lead to reliable discrimination do not lead to valid identification. Experiment 1 showed that, in the condition in which a stimulation of the right eye produced a visual direction toward the right and a stimulation of the left eye toward the left, there was a preponderance of correct responses. In the condition in which a stimulation of the right eye produced a visual direction toward the left and the left eye toward the right, there was a preponderance of incorrect responses. Experiment 2 showed that covariation of responses with visual direction decreased when feedback was provided because subjects sought other cues. Experiment 3, which included binocularly deficient subjects, showed that a feeling-in-the-eye is associated with the eye stimulated by a greater change in luminance rather than the eye stimulated by the target stimulus. When the luminance change was greater in the target eye, the feeling led to reliably correct responses, but when the luminance change was greater in the nontarget eye, it led to reliably incorrect responses. Experiment 4 indicated that the proportion of correct responses covaries with the degree of change in the luminance of the nontarget eye. The responses varied from reliably incorrect identifications, through unreliable identifications, to reliably correct identifications. These findings are consistent with the idea that stimulation of either eye is "projected" to the cyclopean eye.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008027 Light That portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared range. Light, Visible,Photoradiation,Radiation, Visible,Visible Radiation,Photoradiations,Radiations, Visible,Visible Light,Visible Radiations
D010364 Pattern Recognition, Visual Mental process to visually perceive a critical number of facts (the pattern), such as characters, shapes, displays, or designs. Recognition, Visual Pattern,Visual Pattern Recognition
D010783 Photometry Measurement of the various properties of light. Photometries
D004192 Discrimination, Psychological Differential response to different stimuli. Discrimination, Psychology,Psychological Discrimination
D005246 Feedback A mechanism of communication within a system in that the input signal generates an output response which returns to influence the continued activity or productivity of that system. Feedbacks
D005403 Fixation, Ocular Positioning and accommodation of eyes that allows the image to be brought into place on the FOVEA CENTRALIS of each eye. Focusing, Ocular,Ocular Fixation,Eye Gaze,Eye Gazes,Gaze, Eye,Gazes, Eye,Ocular Focusing
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014796 Visual Perception The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience. Visual Processing,Perception, Visual,Processing, Visual

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