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This paper reviews experiments that bear on the issue of binocular summation, the superiority of binocular over monocular viewing on various visual tasks covering studies published since the appearance of a previous review of this literature by Blake and Fox (1973). The experiments are grouped into three main categories—those that deal with the specificity of binocular summation (i.e., the extent to which inputs to the two eyes must coincide spatially and temporally), those that study binocular summation on suprathreshold tasks, and those that correlate binocular summation with other aspects of binocular function. The last section of the paper critically reviews several models of binocular summation.
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During preparation of this paper, R.B. was supported by a Career Development Award from NIH (EY00106).
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Blake, R., Sloane, M. & Fox, R. Further developments in binocular summation. Perception & Psychophysics 30, 266–276 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03214282
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