P3D Use of Cyclopean to signify Stereo

["Kenneth Luker" <kluker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 abram klooswyk wrote:
> [There is a rumor that Colonel Berlinski soon will do a stereo
> coup d'etat, and then a number of terms will be forbidden.
> It seems that the Terminology Police already has give a
> Last Warning to drop "cyclopean" to the editors of Nature,
> Science, Vision Research, Perception, Exp Brain Res.,
> Percept Psychophys., Neurosci Res. ,Acta Psychol,
> J Fr Ophtalmol, J Neurophysiol., Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci.,
> Invest Ophthalmol., J Exp Biol., J Exp Psychol,
> Schweiz Arch Neurol Neurochir Psychiatr., Ann N Y Acad Sci.,
> Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Ophthalmic Physiol Opt.,
> Br J Ophthalmol. Science and others, all of these journals
> seem to have used the word in the last ten years, see in Pubmed,
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/]

'Tis true.  The word "Cyclopean" is used specifically to  refer to the phenomenon of stereopsis, in at least the  following extract taken from "Quantitative depth for a  phantom surface can be based on cyclopean occlusion  cues alone" by B. Gillam and K. Nakayama, in Vision  Res 1999 Jan;39(1):109-12:

"To remove the contaminating effects of conventional  stereopsis from the Liu et al. (1994) original example, we  presented a pair of parallel vertical lines to each eye  where there is a central gap in the right line for the left  eye's view and in the left line for the right eye's view.  Observers saw a phantom rectangle bounded by  subjective contours whose depth increased with the  thickness of the lines. We attribute the quantitative  variation of depth to a purely cyclopean (binocular)  process sensitive to the pattern of contour presence and  absence in the two eye's view.  "

Ken Luker

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