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The occurrences of fusion and suppression were determined from stereograms which produced two retinal images located at equal distances but in opposite directions from the fovea. Subjects reported whether the dichoptic stimulus appeared single or not, and if single whether it appeared in the center of the visual field. The report of centrality is predicted by the fusion theory of single vision and that of noncentrality by the suppression theory. Experiment 1, with eight subjects, showed that for small disparities perceived singleness was the percept predicted by the fusion theory; for larger disparities, the percepts could sometimes be predicted by the fusion theory and other times by the suppression theory. Experiment 2, with 16 subjects, showed that with larger stimuli the percept predicted by the fusion theory is more likely to occur. Experiment 3, with four subjects, showed that the centrality was reported when the stimuli were presented for 100 msec. This result provided support for our interpretation that the centrality reports in Experiments 1 and 2 were not due to fixation error and suppression.
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This research was supported by Grant A0296 from the National Research Council of Canada. Experiments 1 and 2 are replications of experiments conducted for Gregor’s (1973) MA thesis, with some modifications. A portion of Gregor’s results is also reported in Ono (1975).
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Ono, H., Angus, R. & Gregor, P. Binocular single vision achieved by fusion and suppression. Perception & Psychophysics 21, 513–521 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198731
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