Effect of binocular disparity on unconscious body actions

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24500236
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Kaneko Hirohiko 東京工業大学, 総合理工学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (60323804)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): WADA Yoshiro 奈良県立医科大学, 医学部, 特任講師 (80240810)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 垂直視差 / 頭部運動 / 眼球運動 / 空間認識 / 視方向 / 行動 / 頭部傾斜感覚

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigated the influence of static and dynamic disparity on the control of body and action. Especially, we examined whether the distribution of vertical disparity in a large visual field affects horizontal head movements.
The results indicate that static vertical disparity in the surround affects the goal of head pointing to a target. The results also showed that vertical disparity oscillation did not affect unconscious head movement, except for a few observers. There results indicate that the information of visual direction from vertical disparity has some effects on the control of action, although there is individual difference in the process.

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