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  • Title: Fixation disparity and accommodation as a function of viewing distance and prism load.
    Author: Jaschinski W.
    Journal: Ophthalmic Physiol Opt; 1997 Jul; 17(4):324-39. PubMed ID: 9390377.
    Abstract:
    Fixation disparity was measured with dichoptically presented nonius lines at viewing distances of 20, 30, 40, 60, and 100 cm, so that both vergence and accommodation were stimulated adequately as in normal vision. As the viewing distance was shortened, mean fixation disparity changed monotonically from 1 min arc eso (i.e., the eyes converged in front of the target) to 3 min arc exo. The average standard deviation of the psychometric function of fixation disparity, which is a measure of the temporal variability of vergence, was smallest at 100 cm (when fixation disparity was eso) and increased as viewing distance decreased. Fixation disparity itself and the change of fixation disparity with distance differed reliably among subjects with normal binocular vision, but neither was related to the momentary degree of accommodation. Fixation disparity was also measured at a constant distance of 40 cm, but with prisms in front of the eyes that induced the same vergence angles as viewing distances between 20 and 100 cm. The slope of these conventional fixation disparity curves as a function of prism load was generally larger than the slope of fixation disparity as a function of viewing distance (which can be explained by accommodative vergence), but the slopes of the two types of curves were correlated (r = 0.39, P = 0.02, n = 25).
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