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The ability to detect surfaces was studied in a multiple-cue condition in which binocular disparity and motion parallax could specify independent depth configurations. On trials on which binocular disparity and motion parallax were presented together, either binocular disparity or motion parallax could indicate a surface in one of two intervals; in the other interval, both sources indicated a volume of random points. Surface detection when the two sources of information were present and compatible was not better than detection in baseline conditions, in which only one source of information was present. When binocular disparity and motion specified incompatible depths, observers’ ability to detect a surface was severely impaired if motion indicated a surface but binocular disparity did not. Performance was not as severely degraded when binocular disparity indicated a surface and motion did not. This dominance of binocular disparity persisted in the presence of foreknowledge about which source of information would be relevant.
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This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grants DBS-9209973, SBR-9510431, and SBR-9511198. Portions of this research were presented at the 1995 meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
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Turner, J., Braunstein, M.L. & Andersen, G.J. Relationship between binocular disparity and motion parallax in surface detection. Perception & Psychophysics 59, 370–380 (1997). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211904
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