Interocular transfer
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Interocular transfer (IOT) is a phenomenon of visual perception in which information available to one eye will produce an effect in the other eye. For example, the state of adaptation of one eye can have a small effect on the state of light adaptation of the other. Aftereffects induced through one eye can be measured through the other.[1][2]
IOT can occur in various tasks involving motion aftereffects (MAE), depth perception (stereopsis) and visual learning.[3] Some of the pioneering research in IOT also hypothesizes its process and location of occurrence, though there is no actual evidence that localizes the process of IOT.
Most of the early research in interocular transfer introduces the role of binocular neurons in the process of interocular transfer,[4] the role of adaptation in the IOT process occurring in motion aftereffects (MAE),[5] and use of IOT in determining the stereoscopic vision in those with visual disorders like amblyopia (lazy eye syndrome) and strabismus.[6]