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Contour Completion Through Depth Interferes With Stereoacuity, Dawn Vreven, Suzanne Mcvee, Preeti Verghese
Contour Completion Through Depth Interferes With Stereoacuity, Dawn Vreven, Suzanne Mcvee, Preeti Verghese
Dawn L Vreven
Local disparity signals must interact in visual cortex to represent boundaries and surfaces of three-dimensional (3D) objects. We investigated how disparity signals interact in 3D contours and in 3D surfaces generated from the contours. We compared flat (single disparity) stimuli with curved (multi-disparity) stimuli. We found no consistent differences in sensitivity to contours vs. surfaces; for equivalent amounts of disparity, however, observers were more sensitive to flat stimuli than curved stimuli. Poor depth sensitivity for curved stimuli cannot be explained by the larger range of disparities present in the curved surface, nor by disparity averaging, nor by poor sensitivity to …