When she becomes dominant her body changes so that she becomes physiologically and morphologically distinct from other non-reproductive female ‘workers’, even her bone structure changes. Mole-rats were thought to be the only mammal to do this, but it has since been discovered that female meerkats also develop elongated vertebra when they become dominant breeders. As well as reproductives, there...

background: vision therapy/orthoptics(vt/o) is a package of treatments that enables patients to achieve the maximum level of visual performance.the aim was to determine the effect of three months vision therapy/orthoptics on best corrected visual acuity (bcva), fusion, stereopsis and ocular alignment in 3-7 year old children. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial study, 80 ch...

Individuals with the neurodevelopmental disorder Williams syndrome (WS) often report difficulty processing and acting in depth, such as crossing roads or reaching for objects; however little research attention has been directed at understanding depth perception and action in depth in WS and whether deficits in depth perception have an ocular or perceptual root in this group. This study assessed...

PURPOSE To define the critical period for susceptibility of human stereopsis to an anomalous binocular visual experience. METHODS Random dot stereoacuity was measured in 152 children with a history of onset of either infantile or accommodative strabismus before 5 years of age. In each of these populations and in the combined population, the critical periods for susceptibility of stereopsis ar...

Although cognitive and sensory deficits have been identified as a core feature of schizophrenia, only a small portion of visual sensorium has been explored. To date, studies on visual system of three-dimensional percepts based on two-dimensional information still are limited. This study is the first to examine the integrity of stereopsis of schizophrenia in a Han Chinese population, and to furt...

We investigated temporal properties of stereopsis at different spatial scales in dynamic random-dot stereograms (DRS) consisting of (i) the repeated presentation of two image pairs (i.e. sustained presentation) and (ii) single presentations of two image pairs (transient presentation). In dense stereograms perception of depth is possible if the levels of interocular correlation are above a certa...

Many papers have reported that motion perception asymmetry (MPA) is replaced by motion perception symmetry (MPS) by the 4th to 5th month after birth, when stereopsis starts to occur in normal infants. Duane's syndrome is a congenital motor abnormality, it does, however, reportedly show good stereopsis. We confirmed the stereopsis in Duane's syndrome and checked the motion perception (MP) by usi...

Our sense of depth perception is mediated by spatial filters at different scales in the visual brain; low spatial frequency channels provide the basis for coarse stereopsis, whereas high spatial frequency channels provide for fine stereopsis. It is well established that monocular blurring of vision results in decreased stereoacuity. However, previous studies have used tests that are broadband i...