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  • Title: Retinal eccentricity of fusion detail affects vergence adaptation.
    Author: McCormack G, Fisher SK, Wolf K.
    Journal: Optom Vis Sci; 1991 Sep; 68(9):711-7. PubMed ID: 1745497.
    Abstract:
    Adaptation of tonic vergence ("vergence adaptation" or "prism adaptation") may be produced by sustained accommodative, disparity, or proximal vergence innervation. Phoria measures were used in the present study as indices of tonic vergence adaptation to convergence and divergence stimuli in five subjects. Amblyoscope targets stimulated fusion either over the central or peripheral retina while holding accommodative and proximal stimuli constant. The magnitude and rate of tonic vergence adaptation were greater under the central fusion condition than under the peripheral fusion condition, even though the vergence stimuli were matched between central and peripheral fusion conditions. These results show that tonic vergence adaptation is influenced by the retinal eccentricity of target fusional patterns. However, additional work is required to identify the mechanism(s) underlying this eccentricity effect.
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