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AS applied to eye guidance, Helmholtz's classical empirical theory of space perception1 contains two basic assumptions: first, that direction and location in space are learned by temporal association between visual and tactile experience, and second, that the two eyes are exactly conjugate in their response to visual stimuli. The second assumption is logically necessary because the theory of temporal association permits no time discrepancy between the two eyes in forming visual and tactual associations. If such binocular differences did occur, each eye would “learn” separate directions. We have set out to test this second assumption.
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SMITH, K., SCHREMSER, R. & HUANG, A. Experiments in Binocular Synchronization. Nature 228, 1339–1341 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2281339a0
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