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Monocular afterimages of a vertical line were generated in each eye of binocularly normal individuals and of those lacking binocular single vision or stereopsis as a consequence of childhood strabismus. Fragmentations and disappearances of the afterimages occurred less frequently in the strabismic than in the normal subjects; they were also less frequent in the dominant (nonamblyopic) eyes of the strabismics than in their amblyopic eyes. The afterimages remained visible for longer when presented to the dominant eyes of the strabismic subjects, and a similar effect was found between the sighting dominant and nondominant eyes of normal subjects.
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Wade, N.J. Fragmentation of monocular afterimages in individuals with and without normal binocular vision. Perception & Psychophysics 18, 328–330 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211208
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211208