Evoked potentials to dynamic random-dot correlograms in monkey and man: A test for cyclopean perception

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Abstract

Dynamic random-dot correlograms elicited cortical evoked potentials in both monkey and human subjects. Control conditions which disturbed the binocular correlation eliminated or diminished the evoked potentials. Thus the evoked potentials were a response to the uniquely binocular, i.e. cyclopean, aspects of the stimulus. The procedure used in this experiment allows a fast, objective assessment of cyclopean perception.

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Present address: Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, U.S.A.

On leave from Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey to California Institute of Technology as a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar.

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