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- From: spotter@sanger.bio.uci.edu (Steve Potter)
- Subject: Re: Vision problem and Virtual Reality
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 05:06:09 GMT
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- With all due respect to the ol' professor, Dr. Dubin, dont believe anyone
- who says something can't be done. Especially when it comes to issues
- of neural plasticity. Monkeys and cats are different than humans in the
- very important respect that we can follow instructions and intentionally
- carry out excercises that can re-wire out visual system. For instance
- I have recently successfully trained my eyes to merge images that are
- further apart than my interocular distance. This requires the eyes to
- diverge, something they never needed to do in our evolutionary history.
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- Also, in order to cross-fuse images without using lenses, it is necessary
- to focus at a distance that is different than the point of convergence,
- another behavior that Mother Nature never intended us to do. This
- can be learned by most people with practice, even full-grown ADULTS
- (but maybe not cats and monkeys).
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- "Never say never" Steve Potter
- spotter@darwin.bio.uci.edu
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