Binocular Vision Flashcards
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ESSENTIALS FOR BINOCULAR VISION:
- Healthy functioning maculas
- Efficiently working muscular mechanism (motor fusion)
- Efficiently working neural mechanism (sensory fusion)
proper coordination of eyes and brain
NEUROPLASTICITY
PREREQUISITES FOR SINGLE BINOCULAR VISION:
- Frontally placed eyes, overlapping retinal fields
Straight eyes, without deviation - Partial decussation of the optic nerve fibers
- Foveal region stimulated
- Corresponding or identical retinal points
- Size of retinal images Must be equal or nearly equal in size
- Efficient function of extra ocular muscles and nerves
equal size of retinal images
ISEIKONIA
unequal size of retinal images
ANISEIKONIA
equal best corrected visual acuity
ISO-OXYOPIA
unequal best corrected visual acuity
ANISO-OXYOPIA
significant/ high difference of refractive error
ANISOMETROPIA
eye has different refractive status
ANTIMETROPIA
extent of BINOCULAR VISUAL FIELD
180 degrees
extent of COMMON BINOCULAR VISUAL FIELD
120 degrees
extent of MONOCULAR VISUAL FIELD
150 degrees
extent of TEMPORAL CRESCENT
30 degrees
Advantages of Binocular Vision
- Single vision - first and foremost advantage
- Optical defects in one eye are made less obvious by the normal image of the other eye
- Enlarged field of vision
- Power to discriminate details and contours of an object is better with two eyes than with one eye
alone - Loss of one eye will not seriously handicap the individual
- Stereopsis or depth perception
- Compensation of blindspot and other differences
development of binocular vision at birth
- Eyes are not associated with each other; act as two different organs
- VA: not greater than 5/200
- normally hyperopic - because ciliary muscles are not yet fully developed and smaller eyeball
development of binocular vision in newborn
first sign of development of fixation appears when the eyes follow light
development of binocular vision at 2 months
eyes follow large objects
development of binocular vision at 3 months
- Foveas fully formed
- They hold objects
development of binocular vision at 3-4 months
Eyes are expected to be straight
development of binocular vision at 6 months
fixates at an object for 1-2 minutes
development of binocular vision at 1 yr old
VA of 20/70
development of binocular vision 1-1 ½ yr old
fusional mechanism becomes fully developed
development of binocular vision at 3 yrs old
- VA: 20/20
- Accommodation develops with sharpening of visual acuity
development of binocular vision at 7-12 yrs old
Age of emmetropization