How do the corresponding eyes avoid disturbing contour overlaps? Historical answers (1859 – 1981)

Author: Piper Hans Felix  

Publisher: Informa Healthcare

ISSN: 0927-3972

Source: Strabismus, Vol.8, Iss.3, 2000-09, pp. : 217-221

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Abstract

The visual system has a limited capacity to fuse overlapping impressions. It takes advantage of three principles of organization: (1) The mixing of different impressions resulting in a new entity (compensation principle); examples are the mixing of colors, dark and light at the retina, Fechner's paradox. The twelve researchers whose work is reported here analyzed two other unifying principles: (2) Selection by successive contrasts (polarization principle) and (3) subordination in a hierarchy of vision (differentiation principle).