New Paper in Vision Research

This was a collaborative project between the Levi Lab at Berkeley and the Verghese lab at the Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute in San Francisco to examine the relationship between stereo depth perception and fusional vergence in groups of amblyopic and stereo-normal control observers across the visual field. The researchers found a strong correlation between vergence, coarse and fine stereopsis, with no cases of impaired vergence with normal stereopsis. Taken together, the results suggest that compromised binocular interaction is the cause of both stereopsis and vergence deficits.

The work is co-authored by Postdoc Ângela Gomes-Tomaz and Professor Dennis M. Levi (pictured above); and appears in a special issue on amblyopia co-edited by Professor Susana Chung.

Congratulations to the full research team: Preeti Verghese, Adrien Chopin, Ângela Gomes-Tomaz, Noelia G. Alcalde, and Dennis M. Levi.