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In order to estimate objectively binocular vision and especially stereopsis, random dot stereograms generated by a personal computer were used. Brain activity during stereopsis was topographically studied by visually evoked potentials (VEPs). The potentials evoked by binocular viewing of patterns without disparity, e.g. correlogram, were very similar to the potentials evoked from patterns with disparity, i.e. stereogram, as many authors have already indicated. To derive the stereo-related potentials from the VEP elicited by stereograms, the potentials evoked by correlograms were subtracted from the potentials evoked by stereograms, and the differences of topographical distribution between normal and stereoblind subjects were investigated.
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Yanashima, K., Miwa, M., Akeo, Y. et al. Topographical study of stereo-related potentials. Doc Ophthalmol 65, 25–33 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162717
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